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“Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.”

Mean Age Love Is Highest Gold Golden Honour Golden Age Old Love

Author:Ovid

“If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.”

Ifs Mean Pleasure Duty Ambition Satisfaction Golden Doing Right Golden Mean

Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”

“Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!”

Men Mean Greatness Birth Blessing Slave Esteem Golden Curse Freeman Golden Mean

Author:Philip Massinger