Quotes About Balance

why the sun do shine on the just and the unjust alike

Wisdom lies in moderating mere impressions

why the do sun shine on the just and unjust alike?

And it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary. She knew how to hit a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to it's least possible dimensions.

Stia cum sa prinda, in ultimul moment, acea clipa a inserarii, cand lumina si intunericul sunt atat de bine echilibrate, incat ziua ce scade si noaptea ce pluteste Inca nehotarata in aer se neutralizeaza una pe cealalta, ingaduind gandurilor sa zboare neingradite.

Material causes and emotional effects are not to be arranged in regular equation.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

He could see that he had too many flowers in the room, and must add more to make it come back right again. Too many flowers was too many, but way too many was just right.

Enséñanos a preocuparnos y a no preocuparnos. Enséñanos a permanecer serenos...

Too many was too many, but way too many was just right.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Primum vivere deinde philosophari - First one must live, then one may philosophize.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can be produced of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken.