It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.
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Aristotle
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
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Cicero
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Thomas Paine
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
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Plautus
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
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Bible
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of...
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Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
