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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
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Wisely
Wisdom
Happiness
World

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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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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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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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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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