Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
Author: Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Author: Aristotle
Work: Nichomachean Ethics
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Author: Confucius
Work: The Confucian Analects
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Author: Confucius
Work: The Confucian Analects
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Author: James A. Froude
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Author: Aristotle
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Author: Confucius
Work: The Confucian Analects
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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Author: Ken Keys
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Author: James A. Michener
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
Author: Confucius
Work: The Confucian Analects
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Author: Aristotle
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Author: Aristotle
Work: Politics
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When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Author: Confucius
Work: The Confucian Analects
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To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Author: Confucius
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Author: Isabelle Eberhardt
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