Quotes about Morality
Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
— Aristotle
Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible.
— Aristotle
We cannot be prudent without being good.
— Aristotle
The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.
— Aristotle
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
— Aristotle
To feel or act towards the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way - is not easy, and it is not everyone that can do it, hence to do these things well is a rare, laudable and fine achievement.
— Aristotle
And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;
— Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
— Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle
Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.
— Aristotle
Virtue is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
— Aristotle
From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.
— Aristotle