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horace-works_123		horace-works_123			.txt	text/plain	1714	71	73	Bad men, when they avoid certain vices, fall into their opposite extremes. If you ask him why he wickedly consumes the noble estate of his grandfather and father in tasteless gluttony, buying with borrowed money all sorts of dainties; he answers, because he is unwilling to be reckoned sordid, or of a mean spirit: he is praised by some, condemned by others. But if he had a mind to be good and generous, as far as his estate and reason would direct him, and as far as a man might be liberal with moderation; he would give a sufficiency, not what would bring upon himself ruin and infamy. However, he hugs himself in this one[ consideration]; this he delights in, this he extols:" I meddle with no matron." Just as Marsaeus, the lover of Origo, he who gives his paternal estate and seat to an actress, says," I never meddle with other men 's wives.	./cache/horace-works_123.txt	./txt/horace-works_123.txt