Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVEven while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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