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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

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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
History
Civilizations
Ruins
North
Conquer
Creates
Borrows
Spread
Conquers
South
Summary
Civilization
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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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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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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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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