To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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