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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana

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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. – George Santayana

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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. – Evelyn Waugh

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. – Oscar Wilde

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Born a saint, die a sinner — born a sinner, die a saint. – Doug Horton

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. – Agnes Repplier

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. – Carlos Fuentes

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My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. – Georg Solti

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