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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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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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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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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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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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It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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