The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Quote by George Santayana

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Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

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...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is...

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is...

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and...

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and...

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

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...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

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

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

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the...

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the...

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......