In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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