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.
Han Fei -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler -
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo -
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein -
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller -
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Kevin Spacey -
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson -
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Saint Augustine
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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
Archibald Alexander -
As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
M. C. Escher -
When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.
Marianne Williamson -
You are dealing with a different type of customer. If they are frequent visitors, they often have heightened expectations.
Chris Smith -
Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
Bill Vaughan -
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
Emile Zola
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin -
Nothing in life is ritual.
William P. Young -
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
William Shenstone -
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
Riccardo Muti -
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle