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Ethics Quotes by Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad…
- For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are…
- Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it…
- Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
- ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,…
- So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
- It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor…
- ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral…
- Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to…
- But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will…
- It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good…
- Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing…
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
More Ethics Quotes
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- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and… — Amy Adams
- ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams