Anton Chekhov
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
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