15 March 2020

Maxims.


These illustrations suggest four general maxims.  The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.  The second is: don't over-estimate 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 special desire to persecute you.

Bertrand Russell, from The Conquest of Happiness

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