Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
- Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
- Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
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- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
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