Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen… — 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
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also… — 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
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does… — 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 we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“And so the good man ought to be Self-loving: because by doing what is noble he will have advantage himself and will… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — 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
