Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people … - George Santayana

" "
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

friendship

English

Collect this quote

About George Santayana

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy) was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Jorge Santayana • Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana • Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana • Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás

All quotes from George Santayana Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like George Santayana:

Friedrich Nietzsche Aldous Huxley Arthur Schopenhauer Ralph Waldo Emerson G. K. Chesterton

Additional quotes by George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. - George Santayana

About George Santayana

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by George Santayana

Advanced Search Filters