One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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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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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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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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