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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Age: 86 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 29
Died: 1949
Died: May 5
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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
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All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
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It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
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No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.
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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
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There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
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The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
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