Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKYRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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 everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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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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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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