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[3] In respect of pleasures and pains—not all of them, and to a less degree in respect of pains1—the observance of the mean is Temperance, the excess Profligacy. Men deficient in the enjoyment of pleasures scarcely occur, and hence this character also has not been assigned a name, but we may call it Insensible.

1 This parenthesis looks like an interpolation from 3.10.1.

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