Quote #53
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
More from George Santayana
- Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
- Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers.
- Gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
- Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
- Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
- Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
- Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
- Only the dead have seen an end to war. (Incorrectly attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur)