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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.
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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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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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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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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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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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 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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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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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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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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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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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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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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
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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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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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I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.
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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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