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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
Will Durant
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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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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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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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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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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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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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