No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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