Aristotelian ethics is the ethics of "just enough." Neither too much nor too little. Enough is enough, even if a good thing. Any more or less falls outside what he called the "golden mean" and fails to contribute to the whole good, the totum bonum. Even moral virtues such as courage are good only if they lie along the narrow mean. A man who fears everything becomes a coward, but the one who fears nothing is a dangerous fool.
— Lyall Watson, Dark Nature