Aristotle Moral Quotations

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue;

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .