Quotes About Balance

That which you term moderation, I call mediocrity

It is good to express a matter in two ways simultaneously so as to give it both a right foot and a left. Truth can stand on one leg, to be sure; but with two it can walk and get about.

One still works, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one.

Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.

A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.

I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.

A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too small.

Men need play & danger. Civilization gives them work and safety.

Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.

we must now and then be joyful in our folly, that we may continue to be joyful in our wisdom!

Many die too late, and some die too early.

Even the worst thing has two good verso-sides.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected", Nietzsche asked in his book The Gay Science, "that he who wants the greatest possible amount of one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other?

Alcoholic drinks do not agree with me. A single glass of wine or beer a day is amply sufficient to turn life into a valley of tears for me.

Siempre hay algo de locura en el amor; pero también siempre hay algo de razón en la locura.

I demand from a book harmony as unity and moderation; that determines the choice of words, the type and number of metaphors, the development and conclusion

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Suppose that pleasure and pain are so intertwined that whoever wants as much as possible of the one must also have as much as possible of the other – that whoever wants to know 'rejoicing to heaven' must be prepared for 'grieving onto death' as well? And such might be the case! At least so the Stoics believed, who were consistent when they sought as little pleasure as possible, that life might afford them as little pain as possible.

Alternar el amor con el odio distingue por largo tiempo el estado interior de un hombre que quiera ser libre en su juicio sobre la vida. Por fin, cuando toda la mesa de su alma está cubierta con notas de la experiencia, no tendrá para la existencia desprecio, ni odio ni tampoco amor; morará muy por encima de ella, dirigiéndole semejante a la Naturaleza, tendrá en el pensamiento, bien el verano, bien el otoño.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn

It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.