In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYEven a bad man is better than a good book.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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