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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... ... – Aristotle
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. – Aristotle
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts. – Aristotle
Wickedness is nourished by lust. – Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. – Aristotle
Those who are truly virtuous have the best right to rebel, but they are also the least likely to do so. – Aristotle
From philosophy, I learned to do good deeds without being told, while others only do them out of fear of the law. – Aristotle
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. – Aristotle
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. – Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. – Aristotle 