Moral virtue is a mean . . . ...

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Change in all things is sweet.

Well begun is half done.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.