ethics Quotes

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

It is no easy task to be good.

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean... ...

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it... ...

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler... ...

We become fair by acting fairly, moderate by acting moderately, and brave by acting bravely.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.