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!
MAXIM GORKYWith his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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