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  • VS63. Frugality too has a limit, and the man who disregards it is like him who errs through excess.

    Alternate Translations:

    From Erik Anderson's "Epicurus Wiki" (Epicurism.info)

    VS63: "There is also a limit to frugality. The man unable to consider this suffers a similar end as the man who indulges in excess." --Eugene O'Connor

    VS63: "There is also a limit in simple living. He who fails to heed this limit falls into an error as great as that of the man who gives way to extravagance." --Russel M. Greer


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