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Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.

— Bertrand Russell Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918)

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Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

A Free Man's Worship (1903)

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Greek Exercises (1888)

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

Power: A New Social Analysis (1938)

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918)

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

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