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Will Durant Quotes

Will Durant quotes about good

American Historian November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981

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All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will--... Will Durant
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. Will Durant
We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong? Will Durant
Will Durant quote: "In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil,..."
In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever. Will Durant
Will Durant quote: "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good..."
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant

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