ethics Quotes

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of... ...

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an... ...

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to... ...