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?
MAXIM GORKYBe 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 one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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 Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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