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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.


Honore de Balzac

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HONORé DE BALZAC And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
HONORé DE BALZAC To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-f...
HONORé DE BALZAC Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
HONORé DE BALZAC La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'h...
HONORé DE BALZAC Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
HONORé DE BALZAC Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORé DE BALZAC Es fehlt uns eben leider nie an Geld für unsere Launen. Wir markten nur um den Preis für nützlich...
HONORé DE BALZAC Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle ...
CARL HONORE 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be...
CARL HONORE The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent...
CARL HONORE Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, gra...
CARL HONORE Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started...
CARL HONORE You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. Y...
CARL HONORE I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of...
CARL HONORE Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through ...
CARL HONORE My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and...
CARL HONORE The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this messa...
CARL HONORE