"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.“
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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."
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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."
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"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
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"Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence."
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