Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.
Aristotle
.. Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..
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He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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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 an act but a habit.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure
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In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make
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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.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
.. Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement..
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Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions.. The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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