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 GORKYBe good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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