Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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