About two years ago, a piece of news appeared in the press that was neither a scoop, nor the only one, nor at all new. If I remember it, it is because it shows how certain “dogmas” [...]
Many of us still remember those Sunday meals at home: clean tablecloths, shiny shoes, the best crockery on the table, the most carefully prepared dishes including a special dessert, a bright [...]
There is an unwritten law that tends to rule over human desire, that of excess. Because of its power, it becomes necessary to give more and more space to certain products until they become [...]
Socrates’ habit of going frequently to the market in Athens, where he never bought anything, became famous. When someone asked him why he went there, he always replied: “I come to see [...]
No one doubts the reality that we all fall. I don’t mean the physical stumble, the falling to the ground. I take it in the moral sense of guilt, error, sin. Every day we stumble and we see [...]
There is a pronoun that never goes out of fashion. It is so elementary that it consists of only two letters. Curiously, it is not the first word we learn as children, but it is the one we use [...]
It is easy to come across people who declare themselves to be religious and who, regardless of what that means for them, display extraordinary ethical standards in their behaviour. They become [...]
Welcoming is an art. Anyone can immediately see if the other person is welcoming. They also notice if they are annoying, or if they have to make an accelerated effort to adapt to the norms of the [...]
In our daily dealings, at work, in family relationships, in the group… it is impossible to avoid frictions and clashes. We have to put up with them. When people really annoy us, we become [...]
Listlessness and boredom are a feeling of aversion to a certain obligation. In a certain sense it is linked to time: how to fill it, how to use it. That is why we find many popular expressions [...]
