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!
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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 the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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