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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Anton Chekhov

A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Goal Greatness Happiness Life Meaning Ourselves Personal Wisdom
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself Thinking
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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