ethics Quotes

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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 of no use

All good qualities are summarized by acting fairly.

Among all good qualities, generosity is the most loved.

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to... ...

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things... ...

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single 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 a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds... ...