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Power is more retained by wary measures than by daring counsels. Publius Cornelius Tacitus		Tuesday Jun 09, 2026
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The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all. Count Maurice Maeterlinck

Quote Author: Count Maurice Maeterlinck

	Count Maurice Maeterlinck
	(1862-1949) Belgian poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel prize for literature.

Other Count Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain have I tried to step beyond what bound me. Despite my years, I am still trying.

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.