virtue Quotes

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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.

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

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

Through discipline comes freedom.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.