Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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