character Quotes

Anyone can get angry easily, but it's hard to get angry at the right person, in the right amount, at the right time, for the right reason, and in the right way.

Talent is culture with insolence.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes... ...

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.