character Quotes

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it... ...

Cleverness is a refined way of being rude.

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any... ...

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions,... ...

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.