Deficiency in this matter is never found, so this sort of person does not have a name . . .

The mean as concerns fear and confidence is courage: those that exceed in fearlessness are foolhardy, while those who exceed in fear are cowardly.

The mean in respect to certain pleasures and pains is called temperance, while the excess is called profligacy. Deficiency in this matter is never found, so this sort of person does not have a name . . .

In the matter of giving and earning money, the mean is liberality, excess and deficiency are prodigality and miserliness. But both vices exceed and fall short in giving and earning in contrary ways: the prodigal exceeds in spending, but falls short in earning; the miser exceeds in earning, but falls short in spending. . . .

With respect to honor and disgrace, the mean is “high-mindedness,” the excess might be called vanity, and the deficiency might be called humility or small-mindedness. . . .

In the matter of anger also we find excess and deficiency and a mean. The characters really don’t have names, but the moderate man who attains the mean here is called gentle, and we call his character gentleness; of those who go to extremes, we may take the term “wrathful” for the one who is angry in excess, and “timid” for the one who is deficient in anger, and “timidity” is his character. . . .

With regard to pleasantness in amusement, he who observes the mean may be called witty, and his character wittiness; excess may be called buffoonery, and the man is a buffoon; while “tedious” may stand for the person who is deficient, and “tediousness” describes his character. . . .