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"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."
"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time."
"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
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"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."
"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it."
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
"The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate."
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