Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo 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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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