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"In medio stat virtus"
'virtue stands in the middle', 'The Golden Mean'
-- Aristotle
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt"
-- Abraham Lincoln
"I can resist anything but temptations"
-- Oscar Wilde
"Life is too important to be taken seriously"
-- Oscar Wilde
"Non scholae sed vitae discimus"
'Not for school, but for life do we learn.'
-- Seneca, Epistulae 106.12
"Cum grano salis"
'with a grain of salt'; with caution or incredulity.
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte"
'Forgive me for sending you this long letter: I did not have time to write you a short one'.
-- Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (1656-1657), n. 16
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