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Liberty is a product of order.

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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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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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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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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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