Quotes About Balance

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together. So too must we with good and ill, which are of one substance with our life.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.

Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious.

There is hardly less torment in running a family than in running a country.

the property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.

In marriage, alliances and money rightly weigh at least as much as attractiveness and beauty.

With very little ado I stop the first sally of my emotions, and leave the subject that begins to be troublesome before it transports me. He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course; he who cannot keep them out will never, get them out when they are once got in;

Le monde n'est qu'une balançoire perpétuelle. Toutes choses y balancent sans cesse.

Às vezes é boa escolha nada escolher.

That is a subtle observation on the part of philosophy: you can both love virtue too much and [B] behave with excess [A] in an action which itself is just. The [B] Voice [A] of God adapts itself fittingly to that bias: 'Be not more wise than it behoveth, but be ye soberly wise.

Esta sentencia me parece desacertada, tanto más, cuanto que ningún provecho ni ventaja se alcanza sin el perjuicio de los demás.

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Dünyaya geldiÄŸimiz gün bir yandan yaÅŸamaya, bir yandan ölmeye baÅŸlars?n?z.

El mundo vive engañado: con facilidad mayor se camina por los bordes, donde la extremidad sirve de límite, parada y guía, que por la senda de en medio, amplia y abierta; es más cómodo proceder conforme al arte que según la naturaleza, pero también es menos noble y menos recomendable.