Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOVWisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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