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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

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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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Justice

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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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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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