(3) In Intemperance, the particular acts are voluntary, although not the habit; in Cowardice, the first acts are involuntary, while by habit, it tends to become voluntary (XII.).
[Temperance is the virtue most suited to the formula of the Mean, although the settling of what is the mean depends after all upon a man's own judgment.

Aristotle does not recognize asceticism as a thing existing.

His Temperance is moderation in the sensual pleasures of eating and love.] Book Fourth proceeds with the examination of the Virtues or Ethical Excellences.
LIBERALITY [Greek: eleutheristaes], in the matter of property, is the mean of Prodigality and Illiberality.

The right uses of money are spending and giving.

Liberality consists in giving willingly, from an honourable motive, to proper persons, in proper quantities, and at proper times; each individual case being measured by correct reason.