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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Honore de Balzac
Children, Literature, Sovereign
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Honore de Balzac
Family, Children, Judging

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

Honore de Balzac
Girl, Education, Children
Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.10, 谷月社

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Honore de Balzac
Daughter, Children, Ambition

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac
Time, Money, Children
Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Honore de Balzac
Children, Two, Fruit
Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.70, 谷月社

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Honore de Balzac
Children, Loss, Her Beauty
"Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

Honore de Balzac
Education, Children, Stupid
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.207, The Floating Press

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

Honore de Balzac
Mother, Children, Character
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.186, The Floating Press

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Honore de Balzac
Children, Effort, Majestic

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Honore de Balzac
Children, Women, Thinking

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Honore de Balzac
Mother, Children, Thoughtful

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