on Moderation
He that holds fast the golden mean,/
And lives contentedly between/
The little and the great,/
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,/
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door/
Embittering all his state//
Horace, from
Odes, Book II,
translated by William Cowper
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