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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
Autobiography
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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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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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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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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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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