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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Maxim Gorky

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY

Dog Kill Master Oneself
Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
MAXIM GORKY

Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKY

Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Material Natural Process
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKY

Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKY

Born Children Future Mom Thinking
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKY

Age Count Marriage
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKY

Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Carriage Past Yourself
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKY

Freedom Lying Man Master Religion

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