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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

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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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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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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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