It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“To feel these feelings at the right time, on the right occasion, towards the right people, for the right purpose and in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
![“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/796/aristotle-78_accurate_if-then-as-we-say-good-craftsmen-look-to_695282.jpg)
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