Quotes About Balance

La belleza, la auténtica belleza, termina allí donde empieza la expresión intelectual. El intelecto es en sí mismo un modo de exageración y destruye la armonía de cualquier rostro. En cuanto uno se sienta a pensar, se vuelve todo nariz, o todo frente, o algo quizá más espantoso.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. 

Yes, continued Lord Henry, that is one of the great secrets of life-- to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.

What does money matter? Love is more than money.

Don't lose your temper; you have only got one.

All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Cada um de nós tem em si o Céu e o Inferno

He had that rarest of all things, common sense.

a beleza, a verdadeira beleza, acaba onde a expressão intelectual começa. O intelecto é já uma forma de exagero e destrói a harmonia de qualquer rosto.

La ventaja de las emociones es que nos llevan por el mal camino, y la ventaja de la ciencia es que excluye la emoción.

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Guarire lo spirito per mezzo dei sensi, e i sensi per mezzo dello spirito: questo è il segreto.

Position and wealth are not everything.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self

By? dobrym, to znaczy by? w harmonii z samym sob?. Dysonans to w tym przypadku przymus pozostania w harmonii z innymi.

he replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.