Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
Philosophers are as jealous as women each wants a monopoly of praise
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
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