golden mean

As long as we realize that, we may not get to the golden mean when we would like, but perhaps others will.

I'm not for the golden mean in every instance; it's a way of exhorting to brutal selfishness.

Priscilla, not knowing what to reply to Martine's fun, wisely chose the golden mean of silence.

And vices are easier than virtue, extremes easier than the golden mean.

It seems to us a sort of golden mean between the two extremes.

This extreme also is avoided in man; in this, as in many other particulars, he holds the golden mean.