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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, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her

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, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

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War, Struggle, Rome
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”

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

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War, Past, Years

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

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Dream, War, Civilization
Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

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

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 exploitation of the weak.

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Strong, War, Mean
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”

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

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