“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 3, P. 57
“A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.”
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 68: from his manuscript, known as 'Cahier pour Aline' (ca. 1892-1893)
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