"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty." ― Honore de Balzac Topic(s): Beauty Tags: children, loving More From Honore de Balzac "There is something great and terrible about suicide." "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." "A mother who is really a mother is never free." More In Beauty "Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."― Ovid "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."― Simone Weil "I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."― Charlie Chaplin