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One Can Aim At Honor Both As One Ought, And More Than One Ought, And Less Than One Ought. He Whose Craving For Honor Is Excessive Is Said To Be Ambitious, And He Who Is Deficient In This Respect Unambitious; While He Who Observes The Mean Has No Peculiar Name.

He Then Alone Will Strictly Be Called Brave Who Is Fearless Of A Noble Death, And Of All Such Chances As Come Upon Us With Sudden Death In Their Train.

Virtue Is The Golden Mean Between Two Vices, The One Of Excess And The Other Of Deficiency.

People Never Know Each Other Until They Have Eaten A Certain Amount Of Salt Together.

Temperance Is A Mean With Regard To Pleasures.