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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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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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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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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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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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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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