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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

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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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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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