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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

Will Durant

Night, Government, Hands

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

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

Will Durant

Husband, Divorce, Men

Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

Will Durant

Progress, Environment

Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Will Durant

Statesmen, Moralist

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

Will Durant

Thinking, Molecules, Majestic

Will Durant (1978). “Transition”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

Will Durant

Men, Progress, Liberty

Will Durant (2014). “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

Will Durant

Christian, Jesus, Powerful

Will Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization...: Caesar and Christ”

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Will Durant

Wisdom, War, Light

Will Durant (1961). “Story of Philosophy”, p.2, Simon and Schuster