It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the manner wherein we accept it overwhelming sorrow may spring. We are wrong… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom that… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“He is wise who at last sees in suffering only the light that it sheds on his soul; and whose eyes never… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
