No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA 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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Sin is geographical.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human 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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