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Moderation is, among the wealthy, a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.
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Moderation is an inseparable companion of wisdom but it has not even a nodding acquaintance with genius.
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Moderation is a vain display of our strength of mind, and only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.
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Moderation is, in people who are contented, derived from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
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Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune.
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Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves.