Aristotle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
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I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
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It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.
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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.