An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYHappiness 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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