Quotes about Balance

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Good can exist without evil whereas evil cannot exist without good.