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Danh ngôn của Anton Chekhov (Sứ mệnh: 1)

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
To advise is not to compel.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
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.
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.
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.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.