“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.”
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
