What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKYBe good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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!
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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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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