Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with read more

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised read more

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is read more

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.