Quotes About Balance

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

On the virtuous man] He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

For this, he said, is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?

He who desires to be happy must pursue and practice temperance and run away from intemperance as fast as his legs will carry him.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Or isn't virtue in tension with wealth, as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclining in opposite directions?

Then, I said, no science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker?

This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice;—it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation; and justice, being at a middle point between the two, is tolerated not as a good, but as the lesser evil, and honoured by reason of the inability of men to do injustice.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...