To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic
Anton ChekhovNothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
Anton ChekhovBut at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!
Anton Chekhov