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From Quotes by Will Durant
- History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
- The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in…
- The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of…
- A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,…
- 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…
- The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
- The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is…
- Cultivate your gardenÂ… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you Â… follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own…
- 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,…
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