To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George SantayanaNothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
George Santayana... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
George SantayanaEvery nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
George Santayana