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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

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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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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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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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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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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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