Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person emerging a person of what he calls excessive virtue almost hyperbolic excellence he says who stands so far above the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.

亚里士多德并未排除,这种人出现的可能性，一位他认为,具有过多美德，及几近夸张的卓越特质,他说，能持续凌驾众人之上的人,值得成为全面性的自然统治者。

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Instead, there may be something to be gained by leaning less on modern gurus who pontificate about such things as best in class and more toward Aristotle, who defined virtue not in terms of maximum excellence, but as a habit of choosing the mean lying between the extremes.

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