Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Quote by George Santayana

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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one...

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one...

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

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

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

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges...

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is...

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is...

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Depression is rage spread thin.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.