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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Poor
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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