balance
Gypsy
One other thing. I found this and it seems to typify what I keep rambling on about: balance.
Aristotle's Table of Virtues:
The Means Between Extremes.
Most moral virtues, and not just courage, are understood as falling at the mean between two accompanying vices. Aristotle's list may be represented by the following table:
| Vice of Deficiency | Virtuous Mean | Vice of Excess |
| Cowardice | Courage | Rashness |
| Insensibility | Temperance | Intemperance |
| Illiberality | Liberality | Prodigality |
| Pettiness | Munificence | Vulgarity |
| Humble-mindedness | High-mindedness | Vaingloriness |
| Want of Ambition | Right Ambition | Over-ambition |
| Spiritlessness | Good Temper | Irascibility |
| Surliness | Friendly Civility | Obsequiousness |
| Ironical Depreciation | Sincerity | Boastfulness |
| Boorishness | Wittiness | Buffoonery |
| Shamelessness | Modesty | Bashfulness |
| Callousness | Just Resentment | Spitefulness |
http://fs.huntingdon.edu/jlewis/Outlines/ArisVirtuesTable.htm
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August 2008 