A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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