The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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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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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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