Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.Anton Chekhov
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions
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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Only entropy comes easy.
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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.
Anton Chekhov
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