WIST

Any idiot can face a crisis, it is the day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
(Attributed)

You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
(Attributed)

Man is what he believes.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
(Attributed)

He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
Notebooks

We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: “In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past.”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
Notebooks

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
Notebooks, Notebook I, vol. 17, p. 52,
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian playwright and writer
The Duel [Kerbalai] (1891)