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Virtue Quotes by Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those…
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do…
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but…
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
- Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their…
- Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion…
- Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling…
- for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been…
- The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences…
- 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…
- ... 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…
- Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems,…
- Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding…
- . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand…
- Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
- For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity…
- The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For…
More Virtue Quotes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine