To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
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Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana in The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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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.
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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
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