When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.


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Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of t...
HONORé DE BALZAC
[...]O que está faltando? Um nada, mas um nada que é tudo. Vocês têm a aparência da vida mas n�...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
HONORé DE BALZAC
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
HONORé DE BALZAC
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.
HONORé DE BALZAC
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influe...
HONORé DE BALZAC
-Хүү минь, чи надад ямар ч өргүй гэж бодож явах эрхийг б�...
HONORé DE BALZAC
No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely s...
HONORé DE BALZAC
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
HONORé DE BALZAC
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the ...
HONORé DE BALZAC
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
HONORé DE BALZAC
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...
HONORé DE BALZAC
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the ...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Борьба имеет свою прелесть. Бороться - значит жить, пус�...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffoc...
HONORé DE BALZAC
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch...
HONORé DE BALZAC
The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations,...
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