Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live."
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"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live."
Maurice Maeterlinck The Life of the Bee
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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."
Maurice Maeterlinck
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"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
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"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."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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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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"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
"You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"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
"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."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"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
"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it."
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"There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge."
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