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It's about finding the right amount.

When we hear the word temperance, see us though, is observed, most of us in the modern world think of abstinence.

When you look up the definition of abstinence, temperance is there as a synonym, but temperance, Lewis wrote, is actually about going to the right length, but no further.

Temperance isn't about elimination going without or removing something bad, at least not all the time.

It's also about moderation, finding the right amount of something, anything.

It's Aristotle's famous metaphor of the golden mean, the idea that virtue usually sits between two vices, courage is somewhere between cowardice and recklessness, confidence between crippling self-doubt and blinding arrogance, hard work between workaholism and laziness, generosity between parsimoniousness and prolificacy.

But it's important to realize that virtue, this finding of the halfway point, is difficult.

Reading the Stokes can only make this more difficult. Don't procrastinate, Marcus tells us, and then with the next breath, he says, don't be all about business. Read, read, read, he says, but don't forget to close your books and engage with the world.

Seneca tells us to be prepared for the worst right after he tells us not to worry about the dangers of the future.

Epic Titus tells us to acquiesce to fate and embrace our own destiny.

Look, it's not that the Stokes were contradicting themselves, it's that balance, finding the right amount is a high art. It takes work and study and practice to figure out what the right thing to do is and the right amount at the right time and the right way.

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