Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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