Wisdom at times is found in folly.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.