virtue Quotes

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess... ...

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

We become fair by acting fairly, moderate by acting moderately, and brave by acting bravely.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that... ...

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

We must become just be doing just acts.

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious;... ...

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never... ...