The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness - Honoré de Balzac

However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange but true quirk of behaviour, whose root is easily traced to the human heart. Some people perhaps have nothing left to gain from those they live with; having revealed the emptiness of their souls, they secretly feel themselves to be judged with deserved severity; however, as they have a powerful craving for the flattery they need but lack, or a burning desire to appear to possess qualities they do not have, they hope to take by surprise the heart and esteem of those who are strangers to them, at the risk of one day falling from grace.

Il n’y a que des enfants aimants et aimés qui puissent consoler une femme de la perte de sa beauté.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown