" Of every ten who tread the Middle Way to Knowledge there are nine
who turn aside through avarice, though not all avarice is born of
belly-hunger or the greed for gold. Some seek preeminence, such
eminence as they have won corroded by insane pride. So by this
mark you shall know the Middle Way, that whoso treads it truly
avoids vices, having found them in himself, so that he knows their
habit and is temperate in judgment, throwing no stones lest he
break the windows of his own soul.--From The Book Of The Sayings
of Tsiang Samdup "

― Talbot Mundy , The Devil's Guard