Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… — 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
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the… — 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
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — 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
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
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
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — 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
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — 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 virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive… — 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
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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