Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

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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…
• The living are just the dead on holiday
• It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
• Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
• We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
• The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
• The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
• The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
• To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
• 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…
• 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.
• There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
• At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will…
• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
• Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman…
• The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
• We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
• In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,…
• He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

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