Quote of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - The thought of death betrays us...
Biography - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues:
French writer and moralist.
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.
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Maxim 143
Source: Reflexions and Maxims
Translation
(German, French)
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Quotes for: to live
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Quotes for: to die
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Quotes about thought:
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Quotes for: Forgetting
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
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