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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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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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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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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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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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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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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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Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.
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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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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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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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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.
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