One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Author: Anton Chekhov
Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is in fact a talent: you must be born with it.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is in fact a talent: you must be born with it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
We learn about life not from plusses alone but from minuses as well.
We learn about life not from plusses alone but from minuses as well.