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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

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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
World
Prefers
Wisely
Wisdom
Happiness

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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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