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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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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
Beauty
Often
Nature
Come
Culpable
Oversight
Packages
Separate
Virtue

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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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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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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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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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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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