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Authors
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian
Dramatist
About the author
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Reason
#Justice
#Wisdom
#Goodness
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Words
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Happiness
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Shadow
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Death
#Knowledge
#Animals
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Past
#Men
#Future
#Tradition
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Act
#Happiness
#Goodness
#Reward
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Truth
#Value
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Will
#Nothing
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Love
#Memory
#Tears
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Happiness
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Soul
#Unhappiness
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Life
#Chance
#Peace
#Happiness
#Disaster
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Reason
#May
#Nature
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#Fashion
#Silence
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian
Dramatist
#First
#Duty
#Happiness