No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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 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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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