Quotes About Harmony

Neopovrhuj smrÃ…Â¥ou, ale spriate? sa s ?ou, lebo aj ona je jedným z toho, ?o chce prirodzenosÃ…Â¥.

We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural.

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Not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, but to strive to reduce him to his former disposition

Reason is free from hatred, has no desire to harm anyone or anything, and will never direct you to do evil. Reason works to the benefit of all things.

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better group of harmony if you keep on going back to it.

Whensoever by some present hard occurrences thou art constrained to be in some sort troubled and vexed, return unto thyself as soon as may be, and be not out of tune longer than thou must needs. For so shalt thou be the better able to keep thy part another time, and to maintain the harmony, if thou dost use thyself to this continually; once out, presently to have recourse unto it, and to begin again.

What follows coheres with what went before. Not like a random catalogue whose order is imposed upon it arbitrarily, but logically connected. And just as what exists is ordered and harmonious, what comes into being betrays an order too. Not a mere sequence, but an astonishing concordance.

how the mind can participate in the sensations of the body and yet maintain its serenity, and focus on its own well-being.

Aunque sean dos, el camino es uno sólo.

O Nature! from thee are all things, in thee all things subsist, and to thee all tend.

What is not good for the hive is no good for the bee

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.

That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.

la naturaleza también nos dio su medida, también nos la dio del comer y del beber, no obstante, tú sobrepasas lo que es suficiente. Pero

The cohesiveness and beauty that intelligence lends to the face—that's what the body needs. But it should come without effort.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.

Suppose someone despises me. That's their concern, not mine. My concern is to live in harmony with nature and reason, so that my actions won't be worthy of contempt.

man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure.

The Stoics regarded speculation as a means to an end and that end was, as Zeno put it, to live consistently or as it was later explained, to live in conformity with nature.

and how all things that are, concur in the cause of one another's being, and by what manner of connection and concatenation all things happen.

Tak ada seorang pun yang bisa menghalangi keinginanmu untuk hidup selaras dengan kodratmu: peristiwa yang terjadi padamu tidak ada yang bertentangan dengan prinsip dari kodrat alam semesta

How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it's best to take a bird's-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets—all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites.