John Bartlett.──17th ed., Bartlett's familiar quotations, 2002
p.98
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
65─8 B.C.
16 The story is about you.6
Satires, I, i, l. 69
6 De te fabula.
17 There is measure in all things.7
Satires, I, i, l. 106
7 Est modus in rebus
see The seven sages, 57:1; Terence, 88:10; Horace, 99:23; Lucan, 110:3; and Anonymous: Latin, 124:9.
p.57
The Seven Sages2
c. 650─c. 550 B.C.
2 Saying throughout antiquity were variously attributed to the figures known as the Seven sages. The list is commonly given as Thales, Solon, Periander, Cleobulus, Chilon, Bias, Pittacus.
see Solon, 57.
p.57
The Seven Sages2
c. 650─c. 550 B.C.
1 Nothing too much
From diogenes laertius, lives of eminent philosophers, bk. I, sec. 63
p.88
Terence5 [Publius Terentius Afer]
c. 190─159 B.C.
10 Moderation in all things.
Andria (the lady of Andros), l. 61
5 translated by john sargeaunt (Loeb classical library), with occasional adaptations.
p.99
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
65─8 B.C.
23 Whoever cultivates the golden mean16 avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Odes, II, x, l. 5
16 Auream quisquis mediocritatem / Diliget.
Keep the golden mean. ── publilius syrus, Maxim 1072
p.110
Lucan
A.D. 39─65
3 Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.3
The civil war, II, l. 381
3 Servare modum, finemque tenere, / Naturamque sequi.
p.124
Anonymous: Latin
9 Nihil nimis [nothing in excess].2
saying
2 also quoted as: Ne quid nimis.
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( Bartlett's familiar quotations : a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature / John Bartlett; edited by Justin Kaplan.──17th ed., rev. and enl., 1. quotation, English, PN6081.B27 1992, 808.88'2──dc20, 2002, )
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