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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the
world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let
us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous
world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
Bertrand Russell
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by
adequate government action.
Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your
reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather
than hostile.
Bertrand Russell
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important
things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but
friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not
merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life
slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from
living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no
one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government
which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

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Sophocles

# I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Sophocles
# Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Sophocles
# There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Sophocles
# But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Sophocles
# A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles
# A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Sophocles
# Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

Sophocles
# I do not care for such speech in the midst of ills; harsh words, even when just, still
sting. Sophocles
# For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

Sophocles
# Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death—what pleasure
does it... Sophocles

A Sample List of Proverbs
"The eyes are the window to the soul."
"When life gives you scraps make quilts."
"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
"Caveat emptor — Let the buyer beware."
"The heart that loves is always young."
"He who lives by the sword dies by the sword."
"Desperate times call for desperate measures."
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."
"A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar."
"A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years."
"A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind."
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently."
"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
"No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back."
"It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps."
"Love makes time pass; time makes love pass."
"Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places."
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
"You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." "Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark."
"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."
"May your every wish be granted."
"Get the coffin ready and the man won't die."

End of the List of Proverbs

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* "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
KARL MAX
* "A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism."
KARL MAX
* "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its
fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."
KARL MAX
* "Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The
only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such
appropriations."
KARL MAX
* "But every class struggle is a political struggle."
KARL MAX
* "Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in
ambush just as many bourgeois interests."
KARL MAX
* "All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation,
under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and allowed to live only so far as
the interest to the ruling class requires it."
KARL MAX
* "When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact
that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created."
KARL MAX
* "The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property
relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional
ideas."
KARL MAX
* "The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have
not got."
KARL MAX
* "Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat
alone is a really revolutionary class."
KARL MAX
* "No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end,
that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the
bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc."
KARL MAX
* "In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we
have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free
development of all."
KARL MAX
* "A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only
so long as their labour increase capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves
piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently
exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market."
KARL MAX
* "He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most
monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of
production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that
he requires for his maintenance."
KARL MAX

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