Nil admirari

Today a sideline unrelated to much of anything.  So instead of commenting on Psalm 31 (I was going to write a note or two about the following:)

"I am as useless as a broken pot."  (Psalm 31:12)

I thumb through my copy The Life of Samuel Johnson and find a note about the so-called Horatian precept, Nil admirari, which I take to mean a kind of aloofness from too much enthusiasm about anything.  This is meant as a kind of advice for living with a proper restraint for human interactions.  I don't especially commend this advice to you, but it is interesting to note that such a concept exists, isn't it?  And as stylistic advice goes, it may have a little merit.  Consider the virtues of dignity and a sense of reserve.