on words.Listen to me.
I have the prudence of Amphiaraus and the baldness of Caesar.
There must be a limit, even to rebuses.
Est modus in rebus.
"There must be a limit, even to dinners.
You are fond of apple turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess.Even in the matter of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite.Gluttony chastises the glutton, Gula punit Gulax.
Indigestion is charged by the good God with preaching morality to stomachs.And remember this:
each one of our passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full.
In all things the word finis must be written in good season; self-control must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn on appetite; one must set one''s own fantasy to the violin, and carry one''s self to the post.
The sage is the man who knows how, at a given moment, to effect his own arrest.
Have some confidence in me, for I have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the epoch when Munatius Demens was quaestor of the Parricide; because I am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile.I recommend you to moderation in your desires.