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, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to 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
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
“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.” — 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
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur… — 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
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will… — 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
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — 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
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
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
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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