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 order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — 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
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. — 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