Reading in "Nichomachean Ethics" by Aristotle, Book iI, Ch. 6, the phrase "the blameless Ethiopians " recurred to me upon seeing "...for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; 'for men are good in but one way, but bad in many.'"
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