You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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