aurea mediocritas
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To a lover of the aurea mediocritas, a twentieth-century British paterfamilias confirmed in the comfortable security of a civil life, such a predicament was absurd.
From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.
This is the aurea mediocritas, or modest competence, the excellence of which was recognized by the ancients.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
"If your opinion that you're only a mediocre artist were correct, it would at least be an aurea mediocritas, a golden mean, with which one might well be satisfied."
From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul
Horace's aurea mediocritas has been preached to you in vain.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
He seems, indeed, to have adopted the Horatian aurea mediocritas as his motto; and the easy-going, self-indulgent philosophy of Horace he made for the time his own.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
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