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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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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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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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