Quotes About Balance

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Inequality was the price of civilization.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

There's time for everything except the things worth doing.

T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Where there is equality there can be sanity.

If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza?" he had asked in the great essay on dirty postcards. "Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of you that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a little fat man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.

the belly comes before the soul

Si tolga l'uomo dalla scena e sarà tolta per sempre la causa della fame e della fatica. L'uomo è la sola creatura che consuma senza produrre. Egli non dà latte, non fa uova, è troppo debole per tirare l'aratro, non può correre abbastanza velocemente per prendere i conigli. E tuttavia è il signore di tutti gli animali.

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.

It is not easy to become sane.

When I set a task for myself, I complete it. Therefore, I am careful not to start difficult and impractical tasks, because I love leisure.

If thou desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires.

CONFUSE NOT THY NECESSARY EXPENSES WITH THY DESIRES. EACH OF YOU, TOGETHER WITH YOUR GOOD FAMILIES, HAVE MORE DESIRES THAN YOUR EARNINGS CAN GRATIFY.

Better a little caution than a great regret.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

There are limits to my time. There are limits to my strength.

ESTE, ENTONCES, ES EL SEGUNDO REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. PRESUPUESTA TUS GASTOS PARA QUE TENGAS LAS MONEDAS CON LAS CUALES PAGAR POR TODO LO QUE NECESITAS, PARA PAGAR LO QUE DISFRUTAS Y PARA GRATIFICAR LOS DESEOS QUE VALEN LA PENA, SIN GASTAR MÁS DE NUEVE DÉCIMAS PARTES DE LO QUE GANAS».