Aristotle Quote by The School of Life

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

— Aristotle

“Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle”

— Greg Iles

“Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you’ll be good.”

— Herminia Ibarra

“The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe…

— Jonathan Barnes

“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.”

— Leo Tolstoy

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

— Vincent de Paul

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”

— Francis Bacon

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

— Jonathan V. Last

Most virtue lies between two vices.

— Horace