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Tacitus

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

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"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."

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"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."

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"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."

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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."

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"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."

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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."

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"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."

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"We never repent of having eaten too little."

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