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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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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
Decadence
Mythology
Logic
Youth
Poetry
Produce
Philosophy
People

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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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