George Santayana Quotes About Evil
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The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
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Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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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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