Character Quotes by Aristotle

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

— Aristotle

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

— Aristotle

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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We are what we frequently do.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be…

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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner…

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry…

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“Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction,…

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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive…

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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him…

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses…

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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is…

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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;…

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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character…

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But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the…

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Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it…

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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the…

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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the…

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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has…

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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only…

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“Again, of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity (this…

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That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…

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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions…

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Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small…

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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable…

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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting…

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