Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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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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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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 most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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