Quote of Honore de Balzac - Life cannot go on without a...

Biography - Honore de Balzac:

French novelist and playwright.
Born: 1799 - Died: 1850
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.”
Honore de Balzac

Translation

(French, German)

La vie ne va pas sans de grands oublis !”
Honore de Balzac

Leben geht nicht ohne großes Vergessen.”
Honore de Balzac

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
Seneca - De Vita Beata

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau

All about life...

Quotes for: Forgetting

The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Don't forget to love yourself.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.”
Selma Lagerlöf

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.”
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.”
Jules Renard

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”
Jean de La Bruyere

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Honore de Balzac also said...

We respect a man who respects himself.”
Honore de Balzac - Sur Catherine de Médicis

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Honore de Balzac

And wisdom in life is perhaps to ask for anything, why?”
Honore de Balzac

Love is not merely a sentiment, it is an art.”
Honore de Balzac

Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Honore de Balzac

People who want something strongly enough are almost always well served by chance.”
Honore de Balzac

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