Medicine and the arts. A boring story (from an old man's notebook): (excerpt) by Anton Chekhov. Commentary.

摘要

"Know thyself" is most excellent and useful advice; the pity is the ancients did not think it necessary to show us the way to avail ourselves of this advice.When I felt like trying to understand someone or myself before, I used to take into consideration desires and not actions, about which everything is conditional. Tell me what you want and I will tell you what you are.And now, too, I examine myself: what do I want?I want our wives, our children, our friends, our students to love not our name, our firm, our label, but ourselves, ordinary human beings. What else? I should like to have assistants and successors. What else? I should like to wake in a hundred years and take a look, even if only with one eye, at what has happened to science. I should like to live another ten years. ... What more?