Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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Does it make you see how much easier it can be to conquer a whole people than to conquer a single man?
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wise man, nevertheless, unequaled though he is in his devotion to his friends, though regarding them as being no less important and frequently more important than his own self, will still consider what is valuable in life to be something wholly confined to his inner self.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wise man…lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas ‘the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.’
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wrong-doing is the worst harm that can befall a wrong-doer (though not to be punished for wrong-doing is even worse, if any thing can be worse than the worst)…
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The unseemly remark lightly dropped results in conduct of like kind.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Character is the kind of thing which discloses the nature of a choice.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!