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“Not everyone is worth listening to.”

Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.

“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”

Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.

“There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”

Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 23.

“Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”

Alain de Botton

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

Alain de Botton

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”

Alain de Botton

“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

Alain de Botton

Source: On Love

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

Alain de Botton

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

Alain de Botton

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

Alain de Botton

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

Alain de Botton

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

Alain de Botton

“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”

Alain de Botton