Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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