virtue Quotes

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

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But... ...

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend... ...

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Character is revealed through action.

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for... ...