Life cannot go on without much forgetting. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. Honore de Balzac capacity forget memories It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers. Honore de Balzac strong wise people People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. Honore de Balzac unhappiness unfortunate people Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. Honore de Balzac assuming stupidity two The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers. Honore de Balzac mother lying hands Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them. Honore de Balzac powerful strong beautiful Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! Honore de Balzac brother kings mother Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? Honore de Balzac paris keys suicide Vivacity is the health of the spirit. Honore de Balzac vivacity spirit Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honore de Balzac romance passion art Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Honore de Balzac trifles like-love hatred Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac real-friends best-friend friendship There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. Honore de Balzac women heart fall Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will. Honore de Balzac feelings The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence. Honore de Balzac habit soul literature A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. Honore de Balzac marriage genius husband The union of a want and a sentiment. Honore de Balzac unions poetry love Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position. Honore de Balzac ignorant pieces feelings They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding. Honore de Balzac great-passion passion ends Necessity is often the spur to genius. Honore de Balzac spurs genius inspirational
