"Virtue is the golden mean between two vices,……" — Aristotle
"Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency."
More Deficiency Quotes
- In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,… — John Hospers
- To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation. — E. V. Lucas
- There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are… — Tony Hoare
- Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt
- Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. — Emile M. Cioran
- Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the… — Mary McCarthy
- Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies. — William Hazlitt
- My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and… — Erma Bombeck
- Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. — Joshua Reynolds