juste milieu

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If you put too much cream, you will make the tea cold,—if you put too much sugar, you will make it syrupy,—you must arrive at the juste milieu in a cup of tea!

From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie

His Gymnase repertory is of the Left Centre, the juste milieu, nearer the National Guard than the royal guard.

From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron

This disputatio in utramque partem—this debate for and against—is certainly calculated to drive us into accepting the juste milieu morality of Aristotle; a conclusion that is also supported by the following consideration.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)

Last year a noble address was delivered by R. W. Emerson, in which he broadly showed the juste milieu views upon this subject in the holy light of a high ideal day.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

In stirrups, as in most other things, there is a juste milieu; and if the American dragoon is on one side of that, so is the Arab of the Desert on the other.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various