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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

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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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Forever
Wrong
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Men

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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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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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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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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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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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