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
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- There is something great and terrible about suicide.
- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Best Quotes
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
- One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
- Electricity is really just organized lightning.
- Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.