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The Chief Beginning Of Evil Is Goodness In Excess. -- Menander (c.
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
-- Menander (c.342-c.291 BCE) quoted in Philo, De Abrahamo
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What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own. -- Anacharsis (f1.
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Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
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Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.
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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
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As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
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