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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Will Durant

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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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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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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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