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Quotes about Balance

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
- Frank Herbert
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
- Frank Herbert
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
- Frank Herbert
A world is supported by four things... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
- Frank Herbert
In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.
- Frank Herbert
Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
- Frank Herbert
You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.
- Frank Herbert
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
- Frank Herbert
The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.
- Frank Herbert
Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.
- Frank Herbert
He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
- Frank Herbert
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.
- Frank Herbert