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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
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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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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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Company Happiness Life Love
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin

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