“So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”

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Revelation

3:16.

“So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”

Macchiavelli represents this scorn of inefficient mediocrity in an epigram on Peter Soderini:⁠—