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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

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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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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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