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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Bertrand Russell

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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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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Enemy Quite Religion World
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

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