Aristotle on Ethics
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Aristotle, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Aristotle, entry #2: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Recorded year: 340 BCE.
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #180331: "The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man."
6 Quotes by Aristotle on Ethics
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
"The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man."
"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"
"This opinion... appears to be ancient... that the one, excess and defect, are the principles of things... It is not... probable that there are more than three principles... [E]ssence is one certain genus of being: so that principles will differ from each other in prior and posterior alone, but not in genus, for in one genus there is always one contrariety, and all contrarieties appear to be referred to one. That there is neither one element, therefore, nor more than two or three, is evident."
"Again, it is possible to fail in many ways , while to succeed is possible only in one way ; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many."
".... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference."