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Seek no excess—all timely things are good.

— Chilon of Sparta

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To be more prompt to go to one’s friends in adversity than in prosperity.

To make but a moderate display at one’s marriage.

To threaten no one; for that is a womanly trick.

To rule one’s tongue, especially at a banquet, and not to speak ill of one’s neighbors; for if one does so one is sure to hear what one will not like.

If one is strong to be also merciful, so that one’s neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

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