7 Aristotle Quotes on Morality

Aristotle quotes on morality

15. Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

51. It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

54. In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

83. Bad men are full of repentance.

136. The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

160. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

165. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.