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- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sidney J. Harris
- Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
- Franklin P. Jones
- When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Marquis de la Grange (1639 - 1692)
- Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- John Wilmot
- You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
- E. Joseph Cossman
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