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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

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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Intelligence Prepare Present
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong

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