liberality

is the best way to gain affection; for we are assured of their friendship to whom we are obliged.

Liberality is the best way to gain affection; for we are assured of their friendship to whom we are obliged.

Liberality is not giving much but giving wisely.

is the golden mean between stinginess and extravagance.

Yet there is a road to it, a guide to excellence, which may save many detours and delays: it is the middle way, the golden mean. The qualities of character can be arranged in triads, in each of which the first and last qualities will be extremes and vices, and the middle quality a virtue or an excellence. So between cowardice and rashness is courage; between stinginess and extravagance is liberality; between sloth and greed is ambition; between humility and pride is modesty; between secrecy and loquacity, honesty; between moroseness and buffoonery, good humor; between quarrelsomeness and flattery, friendship; between Hamlet's indecisiveness and Quixote's impulsiveness is self-control. 2 "Right," then, in ethics or conduct, is not different from "right" in mathematics or engineering; it means correct, fit, what works best to the best result.

What Is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

Liberality is not giving largely but wisely.

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liberality