Will Durant

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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."	Love
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."	Philosophy
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."	Wisdom
"When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: "The situation is normal."	Philosophy
"When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: "The situation is normal."	Wisdom
"The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages."	Philosophy
"The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages."	Wisdom
"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."	Philosophy
"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."	Wisdom
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."	Philosophy
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."	Wisdom
"There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won."	Christianity
"Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power."	Peace
"Education is the transmission of civilization."	Education
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."	Science
"Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the "environment" or the "world," which have no tongues to utter a defense. The mature man accepts the natural limitations of life; he does not expect Providence to be prejudiced in his favor; he does not ask for loaded dice to play the game of life. He knows, with Carlyle, that there is no sense in vilifying the sun because it will not light our cigars. And perhaps, if we are clever enough to help it, the sun will even do that; and this vast neutral cosmos may turn out to be a pleasant place enough if we bring a little sunshine of our own to help it out. In truth, the world is neither with us or against us; it is but raw material in our hands, and can be heaven or hell according to what we are."	Luck

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