"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains."
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Source: Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and De Intellectus Emendatione.”
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