It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
Quotes from The Consolations of Philosophy — Alain de Botton
born 1969 United Kingdom
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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We should not be frightened by appearances.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
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Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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