3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov 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.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov 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.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov 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.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
