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    Abandoning cautious moderation is itself an incautious wi... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Excess should be avoided because it leads one away from the path of virtue.

    Abandoning cautious moderation is itself an incautious withdrawal from the path of virtue.

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    Excess should be avoided because it leads one away from the path of virtue.That which is excessive causes one to depart from virtue.

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    the philosopher says: Beware that which is excessive because if one abandons this cautious moderation itself, to that extent does one withdraw incautiously from the path of virtue … What, therefore is advanced by excess, if the queen of the virtues, justice, perishes in its excessiveness? (PC: 54)

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