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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

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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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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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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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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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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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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I count only the hours that are serene.
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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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Wisdom requires no form her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
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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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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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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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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.
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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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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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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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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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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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