Aristotle’s Virtues
from Nichomachean Ethic
| Sphere of Action | Excess | Mean | Deficiency |
| Fear and Confidence | Rashness | Courage | Cowardice |
| Pleasure and Pain | Licentiousness/Self-indulgence | Temperance | Insensibility |
| Getting and Spending (minor) | Prodigality | Liberality | Illiberality/Meanness |
| Getting and Spending (major) | Vulgarity/Tastelessness | Magnificence | Pettiness/Niggardliness |
| Honour and Dishonour (major) | Vanity | Magnanimity | Pusillanimity |
| Honour and Dishonour (minor) | Ambition/empty vanity | Proper ambition/pride | Unambitiousness/undue humility |
| Anger | Grouchiness | Patience | Lack of spirit |
| Self-expression | Boastfulness | Truthfulness | Understatement/mock modesty |
| Conversation | Buffoonery | Wittiness | Boorishness |
| Social Conduct | Obsequiousness | Friendliness | Cantankerousness |
| Indignation | Envry | Righteous Indignation | Maliciousness, Spitefulness |
| Shame | Shyness | Modesty | Indignation |
Taken from p. 104 of translation by J.A.K. Tomson