Bertrand Russell Quotes

Bertrand Russell Quotes 366

Four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventive of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realised.

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.
The fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness. chapt. 4
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