Tag Archives: George Santayana

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. George Santayana

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Part of the human race

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana

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Self-assurance

[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921

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