It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile sp… - George Santayana

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana

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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.

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

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The wisest man has something yet to learn.

They [the wise spirits of antiquity in the first circle of Dante's Inferno] are condemned, Dante tells us, to no other penalty than to live in desire without hope, a fate appropriate to noble souls with a clear vision of life.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. - George Santayana

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