"Forgetting is the great secret of strong..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”

“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”

“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”

“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”

“He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.”

“Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.”

“Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.”

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”