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

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

George Santayana
Death, Evil, Dying
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

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

George Santayana
Men, Evil, Savages
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.57, 谷月社

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana
Evil, Optimism, Ruins
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

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