"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
-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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"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
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"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."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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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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"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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