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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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History
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana
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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana in
Science
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