Anton Chekhov Quotes, People Quotes, May Quotes

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

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I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

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The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

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That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

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Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

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Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

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Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

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Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

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Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

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The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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