One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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