Of Moderation
Excessive virtue becomes vice; even good things require measure. Temperance as the middle way between deficiency and excess.
Virtue
Of Virtue
Virtue is not the mere absence of vice; the highest form of moral life requires not just avoiding temptation but actively choosing what is hardest — examples of extreme heroism reveal what virtue, at its fullest stretch, demands.
Of Virtue
Historical examples of virtue carried to its extremes reveal the gap between the virtue philosophers describe and the virtue that is actually lived; imitation has its limits.