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.
HoraceFaults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
HoraceWho has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
Horace