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Quotation from The Odes and Carmen Saeculare by Horace
“Who makes the golden mean his guide, Shuns miser's cabin, foul and dark, Shuns gilded roofs, where pomp and pride Are envy's mark.”
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book II, Ode 10 (Rectius vives), trans. John Conington (1863)
Advice to Licinius to steer a middle course between excess and want.
Citation: "Who makes the golden mean his guide, Shuns miser's cabin, foul and dark, Shuns gilded roofs, where pomp and pride Are envy's mark." — Horace, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book II, Ode 10 (Rectius vives), trans. John Conington (1863). (id horace-odes-q2)
Virtues: Temperance
