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George Santayana Quotes about Dying

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.174, MIT Press