Quotes about Balance

In short, between men and women you want... Equality. Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures. I said equality. I didn't say identity.

There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.

There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in all things write the word finis in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent, draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand.

he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.

The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind