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“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”

George Santayana · Nature

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George Santayana

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

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Beauty

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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.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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