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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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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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To be good we must needs have suffered but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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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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I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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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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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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Wisdom requires no form her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
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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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We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.
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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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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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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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Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
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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 value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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