Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.

Quote by Aristotle

Topics: Action Quotes

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing...

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing...

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature...

But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature...

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property,...

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property,...

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been...

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been...

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The law is reason free from passion

The law is reason free from passion

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are...

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are...

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right...

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right...

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.