Excellence Quotes

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day,... ...

That which is excellent endures.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and... ...

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.