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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

~George Santayana

Topics: Best Friends Low Men People Virtuous

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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

~George Santayana

Topics: Courage Dignity Grace His Humility Live Man Only Religion To Live By

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

~George Santayana

Topics: Cruel Free Loved Makes Those Truth Truth Is Who

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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

~George Santayana

Topics: Body Function Instrument Mind Operation Reward Witness

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

~George Santayana

Topics: Accepted Been Excited Fugitive Gladly Happiness Human Human Life Imaginative Judgment Life Picture Pleasures Reflection Resides Satisfies String Truly Will

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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

~George Santayana

Topics: Agree Always Conclusions Different Men Men And Women Only Reasons Women

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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

~George Santayana

Topics: Destiny Each Enabling Help Human Human Soul Less Make Method More More Or Less Myth Peace Proposes Religion Seriously Some Soul Takes Which

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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

~George Santayana

Topics: Act Always Another Create Equally Form Intended Means Nor Reform Shatter Sides Successful Two

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

~George Santayana

Topics: Basis Character Happiness Sanction

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

~George Santayana

Topics: America Country Mentality Old Young

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16th, 1863

Died: September 26th, 1952

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