Virtue Quotes by Aristotle

“A man without regrets cannot be cured.”

— Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

— Aristotle

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

— Aristotle

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

— Aristotle

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

“Virtue lies in moderation”

— Aristotle

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the…

— Aristotle

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to…

— Aristotle

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the…

— Aristotle

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then…

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in…

— Aristotle

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice…

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the…

— Aristotle

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual…

— Aristotle

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply…

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously…

— Aristotle

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a…

— Aristotle

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle