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• Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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  Happiness, Mind, Action

  Will Durant (1991). “The Story of Philosophy”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

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  Civilization, Stoic, Born

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• Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

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  Philosophy, Doubt, Belief

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Knowing, Interesting, Suffering

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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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  Rome, Long, Unity

  Will Durant (2011). “Caesar and Christ: The Story of Civilization”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

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  Wise, Men, Banking

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

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  Enemy, Born, Freedom And Equality

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• Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.

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  Christian, Rome, Perspective

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• Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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  Time, Years, Twenties

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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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  Opportunity, Skills, Rich

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

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  Inspirational, Animal, Men

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• Communism is the opiate of the people.

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  People, Opiates, Communism

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

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  Love, Pride, Wish

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

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  Love, Motivational, Faith

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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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  Men, Overcoming, Grew

  Will Durant (1961). “Story of Philosophy”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

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  Tolerance, Certainty, Grows

  Will Durant (1950). “The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization -Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300”

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• India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

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  Mother, Philosophy, Race

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

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  Civilization, Missing, Needs

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

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  Men, Forever

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

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  Christian, Religious, Men

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• To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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  Art, Communication, Half

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1961). “The Story of Civilization: The Age of Reason begins, 1558-1648”

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• Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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  Philosophy, Giving

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

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  Tools, Rulers

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1953). “The Renaissance: A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304-1576 A.D.”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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