Full Idea
The greatest virtues must be those most useful to others.
Gist of Idea
The best virtues are the most useful to others
Source
Aristotle (The Art of Rhetoric [c.350 BCE], 1366b02)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'The Art of Rhetoric', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,H.C. [Penguin 1991], p.105
A Reaction
I wonder if this applies to the intellectual virtues, as well as to the social virtues? Is this virtue theory's answer to utilitarianism, or utilitarianism's answer to virtue theory? Personally I think good persons are prior to benefits.