Quotes About Balance

Friends are thieves of time.

Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying.

He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though often by prevailings.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

A la naturaleza se le domina obedeciendola.

W]hen any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

Evler, içinde yaÅŸanmak için yap?l?r, seyredilmek için deÄŸil; bu bak?mdan kullan??l?l??a güzellikten daha çok önem verilmeli: ikisi birleÅŸtirilirse o baÅŸka.

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore like him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

Umys?owi ludzkiemu nie skrzyde? potrzeba, lecz o?owiu.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

The courts, instead of being constraints on government, have become alternative instruments for the expansion of government.

The English race, consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government. It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well-ordered and effective.