Quotes About Balance

el haber aprendido cómo hay que aceptar los aparentes favores de los amigos, sin dejarse sobornar por ellos ni rechazarlos sin tacto.

man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure.

How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it's best to take a bird's-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets—all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites.

The closer a person is to calm, the closer they are to strength.

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

that the happy life depends on the fewest possible things;

When forced, as it seems, by thine environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into thy self, staying in discord no longer than thou must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, thou wilt gain more command over it.

Be not dilatory in doing, nor confused in conversation, nor vague in thought; let not thy soul be wholly concentred in itself nor uncontrollably agitated; leave thyself leisure in thy life.

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.-

All that is in tune with thee, O Universe, is in tune with me! Nothing that is in due time for thee is too early or too late for me! All that thy seasons bring, O Nature, is fruit for me! All things come from thee, subsist in thee, go back to thee.

A rock thrown in the air gains nothing by going up and nothing by falling down

When we emphasize his divinity at the expense of his humanity, we lose track of the utterly remarkable human being he was.

I need both of these words, "compassion" and "justice," for compassion without justice easily gets individualized or sentimentalized, and justice without compassion easily sounds like politics.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

In communities and individuals alike, excessive freedom topples over into excessive slavery. Extreme freedom produces a tyrant, along with the extremely harsh and evil slavery that goes with him.

We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more.

For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit. (If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.)

And so—it can't be repeated often enough—you should love after you have judged, not judge after you have loved.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian

These people who govern us should not be so carried away by their own political power that they turn away from peace, but neither should they embrace a peace that is dishonorable.

NOXIAE POENA PAR ESTO (let the punishment fit the crime).