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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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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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All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
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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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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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 decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
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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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It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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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 value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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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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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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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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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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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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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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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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