Maurice Maeterlinck

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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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. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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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

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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

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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

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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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