As the T-shirt says, the best is to find a balance in your lives. Not deficient and not in excess. As a student, you should have time for everything. Work hard, and socialize with friends. The middle column is the wiser mean, or balance.
| Vice of Deficiency | Virtuous Mean | Vice of Excess |
| Cowardice | Courage | Rashness |
| Insensibility | Temperance | Intemperance |
| Illiberality | Liberality | Prodigality |
| Pettiness | Munificence | Vulgarity |
| Humble-mindedness | High-mindedness | Vaingloriness |
| Want of Ambition | Right Ambition | Over-ambition |
| Spiritlessness | Good Temper | Irascibility |
| Surliness | Friendly Civility | Obsequiousness |
| Ironical Depreciation | Sincerity | Boastfulness |
| Boorishness | Wittiness | Buffoonery |
| Shamelessness | Modesty | Bashfulness |
| Callousness | Just Resentment | Spitefulness |
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