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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

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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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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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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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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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