"We know that the exercise of virtue should……" — Bertrand Russell
"We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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