Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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