A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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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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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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