Quotes About Balance

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.