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Maurice Maeterlinck [1862-1949] Belgian

Rank: 102
Dramatist, Playwright

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French.

Happiness, Alone, Death, Future, Knowledge, Love, Men, Nature, Wisdom

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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.	Nature	101
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.		102
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.	Future, Men	103
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.	Love	104
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.	Death, Knowledge	105
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.	Happiness	106
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.	Happiness	107
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.		108
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.		109
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.	Alone	110
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?		111
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.		112
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.	Wisdom	113
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.		114
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.		115
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.		116
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.		117

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