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In medio stat virtus (or, less commonly, in medio virtus stat) is a popular Latin phrase meaning «virtue is in the middle». The sentence is an invite to search for balance in things, which is in the middle of two extremes.

The expression comes from Medieval philosophy, but the same concept can be found previously in history: Aristotle in Ethica Nicomachea ("μέσον τε καὶ ἄριστον"; translated: middle is the best thing), Horace in Satires (Horace) ("est modus in rebus"; translated: there is a limit in things) e Ovid in Metamorphoses ("medio tutissimus ibis"; translated: you will go most safely by the middle course ).