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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
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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Company Happiness Life Love
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
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

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