"The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost."

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About George Santayana

George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, and poet associated with American and European intellectual life. He is known for works including The Life of Reason and the aphorism about repeating history.

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