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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.
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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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
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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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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
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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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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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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
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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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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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I count only the hours that are serene.
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There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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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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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 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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