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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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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
Gather
Heritage
Civilized
Fortunate
Dies
Children
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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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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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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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