To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

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The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell in Marriage and Morals (1929)
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Bertrand Russell in Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? (1947)
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