The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — 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
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — 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
Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to… — 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
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — 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
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. — 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
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — 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
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — 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
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
![“The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/653/aristotle-78_capacity_the-virtues-moral-excellence-therefore-a_1076391.jpg)
![“If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/89e/aristotle-78_acquire_if-a-man-of-good-natural-disposition-acq_342320.jpg)
![“[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be1/aristotle-78_achieve_prudence-is-the-virtue-of-that-part-of-t_431676.jpg)
![“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/796/aristotle-78_accurate_if-then-as-we-say-good-craftsmen-look-to_695282.jpg)
![“Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/498/aristotle-78_character_rightness-in-our-choice-of-an-end-is-sec_2740950.jpg)
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.jpg)
