All ARISTOTLE Quotes about “Choices”

“For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
“Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance”
“[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.”
“Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.”
“Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.”
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
“Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]”
“The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.”
“Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”

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