Plato Quotes, Pain Quotes, Balance Quotes

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

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It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

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Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.

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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

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Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

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In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

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The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

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