virtue Quotes

The best things are placed between extremes.

The main goal of a statesman is to create a certain moral character in their citizens, specifically a tendency towards virtue and performing good actions.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not... ...

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.