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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
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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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
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
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong

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