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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

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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Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
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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Earth Heaven People Pilgrimage
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
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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Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Bitter Creature Human Hungry Life Taste
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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Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
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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Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
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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Care Love Oneself
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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Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
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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Class Force Growth Intellectual
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success

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