I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.