In the case of actions too, there is,in the same way, excess, deficiency and the mean. Virtue is concerned with feelings and actions, in which excess and deficiency go astray, while the mean is praised and on the right path, both of which are marks of virtue. So virtue is 2 mean, and it aims at what is intermediate. Now it is possible to go astray in many ways, but there is only one correct path(for evil, as the Pythagorean model has it, belongs to the Unlimited, while good belongs to the limited). Hence the former is easy and the latter difficult, and it is easy to miss the target and hard to hit it. This again shows that excess and Morality and the Good life,