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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.

Bertrand Russell

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
A 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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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
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
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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

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