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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

~George Santayana

Topics: Enhances Good Make Much Nothing Sacrifices

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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

~George Santayana

Topics: Naught Plato Thought

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

~George Santayana

Topics: Almost Being Brief Condition Inspired

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

~George Santayana

Topics: Appreciate Bliss Domestic Patience Prefer Spirits Takes Unhappiness Volatile

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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

~George Santayana

Topics: Any Cannot Cast Character Common Common Man Gives He Her Him Live Man May Old Philosophy Pleasure Strangers Wife Without

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

~George Santayana

Topics: Military More Religion Rhetorical Than Victory Wealth Worth

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

~George Santayana

Topics: Alone Bid Divine Faith Heart Led Light Mortal Shine Tender Then Thinking Thought Unto Which

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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

~George Santayana

Topics: Advertising Appear Argument Better Function Make Modern Substitute Worse

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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

~George Santayana

Topics: Agree Always Comparable Everything Friends Friendships Go Intimacy Need Other Same Together

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

~George Santayana

Topics: Captain Crime Dangerous Delight Merit Positive Quality Soldier Statesman War

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16th, 1863

Died: September 26th, 1952

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