Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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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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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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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