For being unlike the magnanimous man, they yet ape him; and that in such particulars as they can. ARISTOTLE Much of the soul they talk, but all awry, And in themselves seek virtue. MILTON I do not admire the excess of some one virtue unless I am shewn at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue. A man does not prove his greatness by standing at an extremity, but by touching both extremities at once and filling all that lies between them. PASCAL Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction. I. A. RICHARDS
