No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Sin is geographical.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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