“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.”

― Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“He who does not see the vanity of the world is himself very vain.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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