Quotes about Balance
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
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind
— Victor Hugo
A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
— Victor Hugo
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
— Victor Hugo
The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the other; all have need of each other.
— Victor Hugo
To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
— Victor Hugo
Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.
— Victor Hugo