Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — 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
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — 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
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
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
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only… — 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
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