balance Quotes

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional... ...

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the... ...

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to... ...

The best things are placed between extremes.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

Courage is a balance between fear and confidence.