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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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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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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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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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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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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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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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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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