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.
MAXIM GORKYIt is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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