“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.” ― George Santayana     “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” ― George Santayana     “The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.” ― George Santayana     “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” ― George Santayana     “My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men…

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde       “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde     “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde     “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” ― Oscar Wilde     “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde     “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ―…

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” ― Epictetus     “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus     “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus     “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” ― Epictetus     “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined…