Quote #51
Gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
More from George Santayana
- Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
- Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
- Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
- It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
- Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers.
- Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree,it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
- Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.