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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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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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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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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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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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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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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.
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