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"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
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"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
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"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."
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"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."
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"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
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"Moderation in all things."
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"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
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"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."
Curiosity
"At ev'ry word a reputation dies."
Reflection
"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."
Justice
"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example."
Wisdom
"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."
Art
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
Friendship
"Health consists with temperance alone."
Health
"Order is heaven's first law."
Wisdom
"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
Reflection
"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."
Responsibility
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