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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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• Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

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  Historical, Triumph, Christ

  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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• 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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• 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… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

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  Teacher, Garden, Joy

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• The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

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  Past

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• Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

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  Good Things, Good Communication, Spoken Word

  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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• Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

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  Men, Average, Desire

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

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• Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

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  Civilization, Luxury, Liberty

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

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  Government, Political, Liberty

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

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  History, Age, Sin

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

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• We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

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  Justice, Social Justice, Teach

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• Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

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  Government, Principles, Excess

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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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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• History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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  History, Prejudice, Guessing

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• If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

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  Men, Promise, Revolution

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

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  Enemy, Unions, Utopia

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

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• In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

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  Civilization, Analysis, Lasts

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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  Environmental, Morality, Moral Code

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• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

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  Summer, Dog, Art

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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  Education, Knowledge, Eye

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

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  Art, Philosophy, Achievement

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

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  Suffering, Thoughts Of Death

  Will Durant (1991). “The Story of Philosophy”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Desert, Mirages

  Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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  Liberty, Anarchy, Dies

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”

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