Acting Quote by Aristotle

“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

— Aristotle

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is…

— Aristotle

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

— William Cowper

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of…

— Edmund Burke

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of…

— Max Heindel

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to…

— Aristotle

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle