Anton Chekhov: Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusi — Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacc — Anton Chekhov
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting — Anton Chekhov
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be — Anton Chekhov
Writers are as jealous as pigeons. — Anton Chekhov
People look for a path in the heavens for the simple reason that they have lost — Georgi Plekhanov
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be bet — Henry Ward Beecher
Even that Dionysus is a philosopher, and that gods, too, thus philosophy, seems — Friedrich Nietzsche
Human pride / Is skilful to invent most serious names / To hide its ignorance. T — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas — Samuel Butler
視卒如愛子，故可與之俱死。 — Sun Tzu
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last. — Leonardo da Vinci
For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then giv — Madeleine Bridges