Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian Dramatist
Born: Aug 29, 1862
Died: May 6, 1949
Because Event Goodness Happiness Only Will
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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness Possess Able Only Understand
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. Maurice Maeterlinck
Truth Value More True Most Because Stimulating Falsehoods Than
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Maurice Maeterlinck
Future Path Men Past Every Guard Crossroads Leads Tradition Placed
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
Happiness Reward Goodness Sweet Coming Itself After Act Compare Event
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness Rarely Absent Know Presence
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. Maurice Maeterlinck
Great Summon Those Who Event Inner
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck
Death Knowledge Animals Nothing Our More Merely Know Than Die Us Painful Helps
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
Happiness Life Peace Never Disaster Within Due Governed Us Many Chance
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. Maurice Maeterlinck
Will Closed Doors Nothing Believe Because Happen
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
Alone Dark Others Never Same Different Them Even
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Maurice Maeterlinck
Nature Will Our Only Feeble Ray Prove May Reason
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. Maurice Maeterlinck
Wisdom Justice Goodness Born Springs Reason

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