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Virtue is also a principle of temperance and moderation, which achieves a mean between the vice of excess and the vice of deficiency of a moral quality. Thus, bravery as a moral virtue achieves a mean between recklessness and cowardice. Generosity as a moral virtue achieves a mean between wastefulness and greed.