Quotes by Tarantulas Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven. Anton Chekhov tarantulas toads people Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same." Diogenes tarantulas said wonderful