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Maurice Maeterlinck quotes (18) A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. Maurice Maeterlinck Category: 
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck Category: Death
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 Category:
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
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 Category:
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
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 Category:
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
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 Category:
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
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 Category:
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. Maurice Maeterlinck Category:
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