"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?"
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Source: George Santayana (1906). “Sonnets and Other Verses”
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