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WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78881/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>These illustrations suggest four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventative of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realized. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: Don’t overestimate your own merits. The third is: don’t expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don’t imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any desire to persecute you.</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930) More info about this quote: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78881/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/788…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=altruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#altruism</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ego</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=motivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motivation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=paranoia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paranoia</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=persecution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#persecution</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=perspective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perspective</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pride</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfawareness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfcentered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfcentered</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfimportance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfimportance</a>

Hacker NewsLetters of Note – Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley<a href="https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energy/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LettersOfNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LettersOfNote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BertrandRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BertrandRussell</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OswaldMosley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OswaldMosley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoricalLetters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoricalLetters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a>

Bernd von Mallinckrodt 🦋Dialektik … "Wir alle neigen dazu zu glauben, dass sich die Welt unseren <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Vorurteilen" target="_blank">#Vorurteilen</a> anpassen muss. Die gegenteilige Ansicht erfordert einige Gedankenanstrengungen, und die meisten Menschen würden lieber früher sterben, als zu denken … tatsächlich tun sie es!' <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BertrandRussell" target="_blank">#BertrandRussell</a> Philosoph🖖

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78939/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and, however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930) More info about this quote: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78939/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/789…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facefacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facefacts</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facereality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facereality</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#integrity</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=meaningoflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meaningoflife</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=satisfaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#satisfaction</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfawareness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfdeception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfdeception</a>

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78749/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>We expect everybody else to feel towards us that tender love and that profound respect which we feel towards ourselves.</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930) More info about this quote: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78749/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/787…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=perspective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perspective</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#respect</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#love</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfcenteredness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfcenteredness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selflove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selflove</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfrespect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfrespect</a>

Church of Jeff<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BertrandRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BertrandRussell</a> This is why I don't suffer fools gladly.

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78619/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>Very few people can resist saying malicious things about their acquaintances, and even on occasion about their friends; yet when people hear that anything has been said against themselves, they are filled with indignant amazement.</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930) More info about this quote: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78619/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/786…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=gossip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gossip</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hearsay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hearsay</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypocrisy</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=malice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#malice</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scandal</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tattling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tattling</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=turnabout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#turnabout</a>

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78515/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>Another not uncommon victim of persecution mania is a certain type of philanthropist, who is always doing good to people against their will, and is amazed and horrified that they display no gratitude. Our motives in doing good are seldom as pure as we imagine them to be. Love of power is insidious; it has many disguises, and is often the source of the pleasure we derive from doing what we believe to be good to other people.</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930) Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78515/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/785…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=assistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#assistance</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=charity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#charity</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=doinggood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#doinggood</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=gratitude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gratitude</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#help</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=imposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imposition</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=loveyourneighbor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loveyourneighbor</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=motivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motivation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#power</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=resentment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resentment</a>

earthling<a href="https://fedibird.com/@bsmall2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bsmall2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zest</a>"What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another. Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days."<a href="https://fluidself.org/books/philosophy/the-conquest-of-happiness" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fluidself.org/books/philosophy/the-conquest-of-happiness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/happiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#happiness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BertrandRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BertrandRussell</a>

Marcus Reynolds<a href="https://mas.to/@MU_Peter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@MU_Peter</a> The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell, Stupidity Rules 1933Yay <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BertrandRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BertrandRussell</a>, and what a year #1933 to have said it!

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯Random book from our personal library:📖 Bertrand Russell on God and Religion edited by Al Seckel<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#god</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a>

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78341/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved.</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930) Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78341/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/783…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=candor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#candor</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=discretion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discretion</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=frankness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#frankness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#friendship</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mindreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mindreading</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=secrets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#secrets</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=telepathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#telepathy</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=whitelies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#whitelies</a>

Aneesh SatheBetter Company Than CaesarWhat is this urge that makes us want to be seen as something we aren’t. Take this blog, for example. I am in no way a writer. Barely even a proper blogger. My professional life has very little of this kind of writing. Scientific and investor communication, sure; but not this. Why do I have — and always have had — this urge to be, and be seen, as creative? Is this some kind of performative, effortless polymathism?<a href="https://aneeshsathe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-from-rawpixel-id-7727288-jpeg.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Orangutan (Orangoetan) (1914) print in high resolution by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. Perhaps the desire is to be a modern Renaissance man. In of Montaigne’s essays is the following passage:<blockquote>“They would rather talk at length about other people’s trade, instead of their own, and so hope to be seen as accomplished in yet another field. Like when Archidamus faulted Periander for abandoning his reputation as a good doctor to acquire one as a bad poet. See how Caesar goes out of his way to make us understand his ingenuity in building bridges and siege weapons. And, conversely, how much he refrains from talking about the responsibilities of his profession, his courage, and how he led his troops. His deeds prove he was an excellent officer. He wants to be known as an excellent engineer, an entirely different occupation!Dionysus the Elder was a great military leader, as fortune would have him. But he did everything he could to be known mainly through poetry, although he knew little of it.”</blockquote>Montaigne, if not a “Renaissance man”, is a man of the Renaissance. Yet he quotes even older examples of this urge. We have leaders who are CEOs or investors and want to be known or seen as being accomplished engineers or physicists. Fields they are rather bad at. Perhaps there is a common kind of mania here. Maybe it takes hold in the minds of the mover and shakers of history. But what of us not of a geologic character?I don’t think this applies to us regular folks. Hobbies and deep interests do provide something critical however. Happiness. I don’t really care much about being seen as an expert in writing, making pretty plots, or even performing some AI-for-biology contortion. I would like to know how to do it and how to do it well. I am led by the pleasures of intense curiosity. That is better company than Caesar, I assure you.Maria Popova writes in one of her <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/21/bertrand-russell-happiness/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wonderful essays</a> on Bertrand Russell:<blockquote>‘In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else’s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window. We know this by its mirror-image — to contact happiness of any kind is “to be dissolved into something complete and great,” something beyond the bruising boundaries of the ego.’</blockquote>By the end of 2023, I was in proper burnout.*1 It wasn’t until I was able to focus my mind on reading new things that recovery felt possible. Earlier this year I joined the <a href="https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/contraptions-book-club" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Contraptions book club</a> and that complete focusing of attention has buoyed my mental state even higher. Enough to write regularly and to be ever more creative at my day job.So, I guess, the Nobel-winning philosopher and mathematician did know a thing or two when he decided to write a book with the title in <a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218808" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Conquest of Happiness</a>. “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.” <ol><li>Sidenote: I suspect Montaigne, who was about my age when he started to write also went through a midlife crisis. 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WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78245/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 7 “The Sense of Sin” (1930) Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78245/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/782…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=effort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#effort</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=engagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engagement</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=happiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#happiness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=personaleffort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#personaleffort</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=satisfaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#satisfaction</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfactualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfactualization</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfimprovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfimprovement</a>

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WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78091/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Bertrand Russell</a><blockquote>The man who has double my salary is doubtless tortured by the thought that someone else in turn has twice as much as he has, and so it goes on. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon. But Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. You cannot, therefore, get away from envy by means of success alone, for there will always be in history or legend some person even more successful than you are. You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself</blockquote>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 6 “Envy” (1930) Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/78091/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/780…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bertrandrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bertrandrussell</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=comparison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comparison</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=envy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#envy</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=jealousy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jealousy</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=perspective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perspective</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=success" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#success</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=satisfaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#satisfaction</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=sufficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sufficiency</a>

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