Virtue is a kind of mean.
ἔστιν ἡ ἀρετὴ μεσότης τις.
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Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher born in 384 BC in Stagira. He studied under Plato for twenty years, then built an empiricist system spanning logic, ethics, politics, and biology, earning the title "father of every science."
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