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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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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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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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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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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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