. “The prodigal errs in excess of giving, the illiberal in defect, both missing the mean.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 1 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“A good man feels no shame, for he does nothing shameful; vile acts alone merit it.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 9 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“Shame is not virtue but a feeling, proper to youth restraining error, unbecoming in age.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 9 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“The buffoon seeks laughter at any cost; the boor cannot endure mirth.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 8 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“Wit lies in tact: jesting without vulgarity, pleasing without paining.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 8 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“Boasters pretend to undeserved honors; the ironical depreciate their worth, yet both err from truth.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 7 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“The truthful man hates falsehood, confessing his merits without boast or irony.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 7 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“Friendliness resembles virtue, requiring us to please rightly, not for gain or fear.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 6 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“In social intercourse, the mean avoids obsequious flattery and contentious rudeness.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 6 (Translated by W.D. Ross)
“Hard-tempered men are foes to sociability, inflicting pain for trifling causes.”— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV, Chapter 5 (Translated by W.D. Ross)