Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, “it is…

“Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you’ll be good.”

— Herminia Ibarra

“Aristotle also observed that every virtue seems to be bang in the middle of two vices. It occupies what he termed ‘the golden mean’…

— The School of Life

“To borrow from Aristotle again, what’s difficult is to apply the right amount of pressure, at the right time, in the right way, for…

— Ryan Holiday

“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between…

— Marcel Proust

There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

— Ovid

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall…

— John Maynard Keynes

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when…

— John Dryden

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }”

— Alexander the Great

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms…

— Friedrich Engels

“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by…

— Bertrand Russell

“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

— Liu Cixin