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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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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