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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
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
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity

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