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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
Teach
Justice

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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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