Best Quotes by Maxim Gorky (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
  3. When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
  4. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
  5. 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."
  6. Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
  7. Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
  8. Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
  9. Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
  10. You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

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