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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov

Life

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Anton Chekhov

Hatred

World

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

God

Mistake

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov

Fools

Nothing

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.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Anton Chekhov

Money

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

People