Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Sin is geographical.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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