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The document discusses the ideal character traits of those in their prime. It states that those in their prime have the right balance of confidence and fear, neither trusting nor distrusting everyone. They make realistic judgments and aim for what is both fine and advantageous, avoiding both frugality and extravagance. They combine prudence and courage.

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Précis (66 Words)

The document discusses the ideal character traits of those in their prime. It states that those in their prime have the right balance of confidence and fear, neither trusting nor distrusting everyone. They make realistic judgments and aim for what is both fine and advantageous, avoiding both frugality and extravagance. They combine prudence and courage.

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and neither exceedingly condent (rashness is such) nor too fearful

but having the right amount of both, neither trusting nor


distrusting everybody but rather making realistic judgments and
not directing their lives only to what is ne or what is advantageous
but to both and neither to frugality nor to extravagance but to
what is tting. Similarly in regard to impulse and desire. And they
combine prudence with courage and courage with prudence, while
among the young and the old these things are separated; for the
young are brave and lack self-restraint, the older prudent and
cowardly. To speak in general terms, whatever advantages youth
and old age have separately, [those in their prime] combine, and
whatever the former have to excess or in deciency, the latter have
in due measure and in a tting way. The body is in its prime from
the age of thirty to thirty-ve, the mind about age forty-nine. Let
this much be said about the kinds of character of youth and old age
and the prime of life."
Prcis (66 words)
"The character of those in the prime of l useful traits of youth and
age are theirs."

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