Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. — 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
“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses… — 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
“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
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of… — 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
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not… — 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
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — 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
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. — 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
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — 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
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of… — 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
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough… — 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
“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — 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
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
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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