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 RUSSELLNo nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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 fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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