The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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