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Auream quisquis mediocritatem
diligit, tutus caret obsoleti
sordibus tecti, caret invidenda
sobrius aula.
--
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
--
Book II, ode x, line 5.

 
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