Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
– Maxim Gorky
Every new time will give its law.
– Maxim Gorky
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?
– Maxim Gorky
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.
– Maxim Gorky
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
– Maxim Gorky
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
– Maxim Gorky
Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.
– Maxim Gorky
The most beautiful words in the English langauge are 'not guilty'.
– Maxim Gorky
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
– Maxim Gorky
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
– Maxim Gorky
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.