When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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?
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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