# Will Durant American historian and philosopher (1885-1981). Author of `The Story of Philosophy` (1926) and, with Ariel Durant, the eleven-volume `The Story of Civilization`. He is the actual author of several lines popularly attributed to [[Aristotle]]. In `The Story of Philosophy` he synthesised passages from the `Nicomachean Ethics` into his own English formulation, which then circulated as if it were a translation. A tell: genuine translations from ancient Greek vary between translators, while these lines appear verbatim identical everywhere because they were written in English in the twentieth century. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Will Durant]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Will Durant]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day]] - [[Quality is not an act, it is a habit]] - [[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Will Durant]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC -->