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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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Humans
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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