virtue Quotes

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions.... ...

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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.