Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wise Quotes, Men Quotes

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

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But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

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I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

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The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

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"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"

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