Albert Einstein Quotes

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein

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• Happiness
• Aim
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  • Moral
  • Happiness
  • Aim