Related Authors: George Santayana | The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
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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.
Related Authors: George Santayana | The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
Related Topics: candor, evil, good, justice, pain, pleasure, superstition, truth
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