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Never mind your happiness do your duty.

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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
Action
Mind
Never
Duty
Happiness

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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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