Any idiot can face a crisis, it is the day-to-day living that wears you out.
¶ (Attributed)
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
Man is what he believes.
¶ (Attributed)
You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
¶ (Attributed)
He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.
¶ Notebooks
We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: "In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past."
¶ Notebooks
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
¶ Notebooks, Notebook I, vol. 17, p. 52, “Nauka” (1921)
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
¶ The Duel [Kerbalai] (1891)
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