No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThree 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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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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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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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