Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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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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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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