Moral Quotes by Aristotle
All Moral quotes Aristotle’s page
Aristotle describes moral virtue as the sweet spot between too much and too little, like finding the right temperature. He says that prudence, the thoughtful part of the mind, guides us to pick the right actions. He also notes that good habits turn us into virtuous people, not birth alone.
![“Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/aristotle-78_character_rightness-in-our-choice-of-an-end-is-sec_2740950.png)
![“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/i/653/aristotle-78_capacity_the-virtues-moral-excellence-therefore-a_1076391.png)
![“[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/i/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/i/796/aristotle-78_accurate_if-then-as-we-say-good-craftsmen-look-to_695282.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/i/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.png)
![“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/i/89e/aristotle-78_acquire_if-a-man-of-good-natural-disposition-acq_342320.jpg)
