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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

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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
Enemies
Equality
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Freedom
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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