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A good compromise does not lessen the advantage of either side but finds a way of fully retaining the advantage of both, or even improving both: in other words, a good compromise is one that achieves a Nash equilibrium. With this, I refer not only to a compromise between two or more parties, but also between two apparently opposing motivations in a person or other entity.

In all things we do, then, we should not act from a single motivation but take all our motivations into account at the same time, in such way that each benefits the other and so all motivations become connected. We must seek to thus connect all things thus in balance.

(See the entry below for an example, in that case, a compromise between ambition on the one hand and contentment on the other.)