Quotes About Balance

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering

Neither anarchy, nor tyranny, my people. Worship the Mean, I urge you, shore it up with reverence and never banish terror from the gates, not outright.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

The Astronomer AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

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A mouse is too weak to fight a lion but too strong for the cords that can holds a lion.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all.

She was tired these days because she was having job trouble too; her trouble meant she did not know how she could be useful in her life. Dad's job trouble was he had too much to do with his life. Sometimes I just wanted them to even it out but I couldn't think of how.

She bops around really energetically but she's also still. Like she's moving her torso but her feet don't move, and then sometimes she'll take one step, and it feels like a thesis statement. Like it is a topic sentence about her butt.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.