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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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Misunderstood
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Yesterday
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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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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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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
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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 value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
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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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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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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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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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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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I count only the hours that are serene.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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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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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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