There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.
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We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
[Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
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