Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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Who then is free The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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The age of our fathers, which was worse than that of our ancestors, produced us, who are about to raise a progeny even more vicious than ourselves.
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
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