Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Wise, Revenge, Mean

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.46, 谷月社

• We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Lying, Passion

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社

• 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

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Firsts

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