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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
Hold
Forever
Wrong
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Men

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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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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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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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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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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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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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