ethics Quotes

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

It's clearly better for property to be privately owned, but for its use to be shared; and the main job of the lawgiver is to create this kind and generous attitude in people.

From philosophy, I learned to do good deeds without being told, while others only do them out of fear of the law.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.