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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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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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 good we must needs have suffered but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
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The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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I count only the hours that are serene.
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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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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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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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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
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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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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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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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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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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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