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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. — Aristotle.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — Aristotle.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. — Aristotle.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue. — Aristotle.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. — Aristotle.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle.

The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised. — Aristotle.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle.

Happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — Aristotle.

Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political life. — Aristotle.

[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate. — Aristotle.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle.

For 'activity in conformity with virtue' involves virtue. — Aristotle.

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act ... — Aristotle.

In justice is all virtues found in sum. — Aristotle.

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. — Aristotle.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing. — Aristotle.

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. — Aristotle.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good. — Aristotle.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle.

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

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. — Aristotle.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave ... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness. — Aristotle.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue. — Aristotle.

Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it. — Aristotle.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible. — Jonathan V. Last

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue. — Aristotle.

Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating. — Aristotle.

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite. — Aristotle.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. — Aristotle.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. — Aristotle.

Happiness is the reward of virtue. — Aristotle.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts. — Aristotle.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. — Aristotle.

For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use — Aristotle.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle.