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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

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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
Strife
Beneath
Hidden
Harmony
Seek
Universal
Things

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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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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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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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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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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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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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