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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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