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Quotes from The Story of Civilization: Part 1 – Our Oriental Heritage — Will Durant

1885–1981 United States

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Man is not willingly a political animal. The human male associates with his fellows less by desire than by habit, imitation, and the compulsion of circumstance; he does not love society so much as he fears solitude. He combines with other men because isolation endangers him, and because there are many things that can be done better together than alone; in his heart he is a solitary individual, pitted heroically against the world.

The Story of Civilization: Part 1 – Our Oriental Heritage (1935)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Will Durant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.