Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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