To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.George Santayana
To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions
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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality
George Santayana
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
George Santayana
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
George Santayana
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