Quotes About Balance

Middle paths in tragedy are in notably short supply.

A ideia de que jamais deveríamos tentar extrair o melhor da natureza é tolice sentimental

observar que alguns são miseráveis enquanto outros são prósperos é mais ou menos como afirmar que o mundo contém ao mesmo tempo detetives e criminosos. E é verdade, mas isso encobre o fato de que existem detetives porque existem criminosos...

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.

Knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how.

An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.

Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it.

Do you know, Richard, that it's the weight of one flake of snow that is one too many, and causes an avalanche? Without that one, last flake, the catastrophe would not happen. When using magic, you must know which is the one snowflake too many before you add its weight. The avalanche will be out of all proportion to what you think the weight of that flake could invoke.

A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.

Sometimes letting out the anger is an even more grievous mistake than holding it in.

I could have hated Richard for his father's crimes, but chose instead to love him for himself. He turned out to be quite a man, don't you think? You have been defeated by the heir you wanted. An heir born with the gift. That is rare. Richard is the true Seeker. From the Rahl blood, he has the rage of the anger, the capacity for violence. But it's balanced with Zorander blood, the capacity for love, understanding, and forgiveness.

The power of Orden predates the star shift.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side, even a piece of paper thin as it is has two sides.

Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason.

We know, better than most, perhaps, that soldiers are charged with protecting peace and life itself. The balance to that is that we sometimes must take life to stay an enemy who would do greater harm. For this, we are remembered, not for the lives we try to preserve.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out, said the shopkeeper. That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.