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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. – Bertrand Russell

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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. – Bertrand Russell

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. – Bertrand Russell

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. – Bertrand Russell

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

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The good is the beautiful. – Plato

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Benjamin Franklin

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