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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
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Separate
Virtue
Beauty
Often
Nature
Come
Culpable
Oversight

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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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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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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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