Quotes About Balance

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Zeus, accomplisher, to all grant grave restraint and attainment of sweet delight.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Do not peer too far.

The height of perfection is mediocrity.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.

Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry.

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

Creo que las mujeres sostienen al mundo en vilo, para que no se desbarajuste mientras los hombres tratan de empujar la historia. Al final uno se pregunta cuál de las dos cosas será la menos sensata

Aumentar los impuestos antes de generar prosperidad es como poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

The world is finite, harmonious, and good.

Thus, with the good we have the bad: we have the opposed movements of a dancer guided by one artistic plan; we recognize in his steps the good as against the bad, and see that in the opposition lies the merit of the design.

you have to have unhappiness to know what happiness is.

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.