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But at another time we praise the ambitious man as manly and a lover of
what is noble, or praise the unambitious man as modest and temperate, as we said in the
first part of this work.1 The fact is
that the expression ‘fond of’ so-and-so is ambiguous, and we do not
always apply the word ‘fond of honor’ （ambitious） to
the same thing; when we use it as a term of praise, we mean ‘more fond of honor
than most men,’ but when as a reproach, ‘more than is
right.’ As the observance of the mean has no name, the two extremes dispute as
it were for the unclaimed estate. But where there is excess and deficiency there must also
be a mean.
1 See 2.7.8.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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