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- For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice…
- ...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer…
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
- Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as…
- 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…
- A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is…
- ...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
- Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and…
- Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it
- Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure
- Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.
- 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…
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- 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