Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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