#men

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ↗

— George Santayana

#disillusionment #wisdom

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ↗

— George Santayana

#adversity #fire #furnace #gold #men

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. ↗

— George Santayana

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ↗

— George Santayana

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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

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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

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

— George Santayana

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