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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.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Past, Men, Path

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

Maurice Maeterlinck
Past, Masters, Saddened
Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.41, 谷月社

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Persistence, Past, Men

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