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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
Nothing
Writing
Arrangement
Arrangements
Originality
Except
Creativity

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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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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 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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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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