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“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
― The Wisdom of Life
― The Wisdom of Life
“The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]”
― The Wisdom of Life
― The Wisdom of Life
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“... what every one most aims at in ordinary contact with his fellows is to prove them inferior to himself ...”
― The Wisdom of Life
― The Wisdom of Life
“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail,”
― The Wisdom of Life
― The Wisdom of Life
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