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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.

Bertrand Russell

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
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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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
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
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself

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