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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
Truth
Make
Rich
Free

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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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