Not to be angry on the proper provocation, is folly, insensibility, slavish submission.
Of those given to excess in anger, some are quick, impetuous, and soon appeased; others are sulky, repressing and perpetuating their resentment.

It is not easy to define the exact mean; each case must be left to individual perception (V.).
The next virtue is Good-breeding in society, a balance between surliness on the one hand, and weak assent or interested flattery on the other.

It is a nameless virtue, resembling friendship without the special affection.

Aristotle shows what he considers the bearing of the finished gentleman, studying to give pleasure, and yet expressing disapprobation when it would be wrong to do otherwise (VI.).
Closely allied to the foregoing is the observance of a due mean, in the matter of Boastfulness.

The boastful lay claim to what they do not possess; false modesty [Greek: eironeia] is denying or underrating one's own merits.