Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVDoctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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