Quotes About Balance

On the one side blind force, on the other a soul.

There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Good thoughts have their abysses as well as evil ones.

it is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.

Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be better to grow salads there than bouquets. Madame Magloire, retorted the Bishop, you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's pause, "Perhaps more so.

Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base.

Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.

Terminar este duelo, amalgamar la idea pura con la realidad humana, hacer penetrar pacíficamente el derecho en el hecho y e hecho en el derecho, es el trabajo de los sabios.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.

There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

Proper distribution does not imply an equal share but an equitable share. Equity is the essence of equality.

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in all things write the word finis in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent, draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand.

A person who is seated instead of standing erect — destinies hang upon such a thing as that.

As for wine, he drank water.

he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.

Madame Magloire, retorted the Bishop, you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.