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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

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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
Pride
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Loved
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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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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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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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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