Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

Tacitus (c.56-c.120) Roman historian, orator, politician [Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]
Histories, Book 3, ch. 86 (AD 115-16)

 
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