Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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