Quotes About Balance

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

A widow has two tasks before her, whose duties clash: she is a mother, and yet she must exercise parental authority.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.

You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters.

Basta a un joven encontrar una mujer que no le ama o que le quiere demasiado para que su vida quede desordenada. La felicidad engulle nuestras fuerzas como el infortunio mata nuestras virtudes.

But, after all, too much knowledge, like ignorance, brings you to a negation.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. All autocratic, unbridled power, with nothing to counterbalance it, leads to abuse, to mad excess. Despotism is power gone mad. In women, despotism takes the form of satisfying their whims.

Ne güvenli ne baya?? ne de çok görkemli olun, bu tutumlar?n üçü de insan? gözden dü?ürür. Fazla güven sayg?y? azalt?r, baya??l?k küçümsenmenize yol açar, fazla çaba da sömürülmenize neden olur.

There is still a way to harmonize all interests," said Solonet, uttering this sentence in a high falsetto tone, which silenced the other three and drew their eyes and their attention upon himself. This young man was not unlike a skilful coachman who holds the reins of four horses, and amuses himself by first exciting his animals and then subduing them.

Vouloir nous brûle et pouvoir nous détruit; mais savoir laisse notre faible organisation dans un perpétuel état de calme.

What is life, my dear fellow, if you let a woman be the whole of it? A boat you can't command,

There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

An artist should be as impartial as God.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.