When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Aristotle
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
Aristotle
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Aristotle
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing
Aristotle
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Aristotle