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[9]
If therefore
the way in which every art or science performs its work well is by looking to the mean and
applying that as a standard to its productions （hence the common remark about a
perfect work of art, that you could not take from it nor add to it—meaning that
excess and deficiency destroy perfection, while adherence to the mean preserves
it）—if then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work,
and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will
follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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