Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
From George Santayana
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
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