Easy to miss the mark but difficult to hit it

I speak of moral virtue, as it is moral virtue which is concerned with emotions and actions, and it is these which admit of excess and deficiency and the mean. Thus it is possible to go too far, or not to go far enough, in respect of fear, courage, desire, anger, pity, and pleasure and pain generrally and the excess and the efficiency are a like wrong, but to experience these emotions at the right times and on the right occasions and towards the right persons and for the right causes and in the right manner is the mean or the supreme good, which is characteristic of virtue. But virtue is concerned with emotions and actions, and here excess is an error and deficiency a fault, where as the mean successful and laudable, and success and merit are both characteristic of virtue. We never find people who are deficient in regard to pleasure accordingly such people again have not received a name, but we may call them insensible.