To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
Author: Confucius
Work: The Confucian Analects
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all
Author: William Shakespeare
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Author: Sophocles
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No man was ever wise by chance.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Author: Euripides
Work: Phoenix
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Time eases all things.
Author: Sophocles
Work: Oedipus Rex
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Author: Horace
Work: Epistles
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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
Author: Homer
Work: The Odyssey
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Author: Albert Einstein
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The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Author: Plato
Work: The Republic
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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Work: Maxims
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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