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I don’t admire an over-flowing virtue such as bravery unless I see at the same time an overflow of the opposite virtue, as with Epaminondas, who was both extremely brave and extremely kind.... One does not ascend to greatness by being at but one or the other extreme, but by touching both at once and by filling what’s between. <span class="source">(Blaise Pascal, ''Pensees''. Paris: Editions Gamier Freres, 1958, #353, p. 162.)</span> | I don’t admire an over-flowing virtue such as bravery unless I see at the same time an overflow of the opposite virtue, as with Epaminondas, who was both extremely brave and extremely kind.... One does not ascend to greatness by being at but one or the other extreme, but by touching both at once and by filling what’s between. <span class="source">(Blaise Pascal, ''Pensees''. Paris: Editions Gamier Freres, 1958, #353, p. 162.)</span> | ||