Quotes about Ethics
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.
— Aristotle
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
— Aristotle
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
— Aristotle
While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
— Aristotle
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
— Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
— Aristotle
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
— Aristotle
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
— Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
— Aristotle
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.
— Aristotle
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
— Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
— Aristotle