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Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born o

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. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Bees
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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. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. – Pindar

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. – James Truslow Adams

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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. – Thomas Reid

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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. – Wilson Mizner

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