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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
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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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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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Endurance Patience People Relationship

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