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- . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Character is revealed through action.
- We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
- All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
- We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
- The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in…
- Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of…
- Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses…
- Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
- If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul…
- The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is…
- We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
- And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical…
- A man is the origin of his action.
- Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or…
- These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way…
- It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the…
- PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
- Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing…
- In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right…
- Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
- All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their…
- So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake…
- ...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported…
- In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle