What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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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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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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