Excellence is an art won by training and habituationAristotle
There is also in the arts a reason why the same thing is not done by all persons, even though they are furnished with the same apparatus.Aristotle
Goodness itself is not profitable, but there is a profit to be got from it- that is to say, honor and privilege.Aristotle
Men will be good or bad builders as a result of building well or building badly.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful for the sake of something else.Aristotle
As among melodies there are the dirge and the paean, so there are also speeches that excite grief and speeches that stimulate joy.Aristotle
Presumably, however, to say that happiness is the chief good seems a platitude, and a clearer account of what it is still desired.Aristotle
One who reasons well for a bad purpose is wickedAristotle
It is in the power of everyone to do, as we say, bad carpentryAristotle
The right sort of excellence is not an excellence of mind, though it is because of an excellence of a sort that what you feel is good.Aristotle
Goods of the soul are valuable in all things.Aristotle
Honor, pleasure, reason, and every virtue fall, as it seems, under one and the same standard- for all aim at what is beautifulAristotle
The mark of a truly educated man is the pursuit of learning for its own sakeAristotle
We should employ irony only in the defense of what is justAristotle
Wicked men obey out of fear, good men out of loveAristotle
We cannot learn without pain.Aristotle
Our capacity for feeling is on the one hand less diverse in its forms, and on the other hand more stable than our faculty of predictionAristotle
For where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to actAristotle
Life is made up of action and becoming; the latter is motion.Aristotle