Plato Quotes, Character Quotes

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Loss Quotes

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Character Quotes , Thermometers Quotes

Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Character Quotes , Matter Quotes

Success is the best builder of character.

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Experience Quotes

Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and outlook actually have not changed much. And people who are closest to me will tell you that the guy who came here is the same guy who's leaving.

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I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

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Tags : Abigail Breslin Quotes , Fun Quotes , Character Quotes

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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Tags : A.M. Homes Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Cheer Quotes , Character Quotes

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Animal Quotes

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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