More From Honore de Balzac
- "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."
- "For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
- "The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste."
More In Nature
- "I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."― Richard Russo
- "Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."― Arthur Schopenhauer
- "Many cats are the death of the mouse."― Kaspar Hauser