Horace Quotes, Wise Quotes, Character Quotes

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

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She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Order Quotes

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Character Quotes , Rumor Quotes

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Way Quotes

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

The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.

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One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Believe Quotes , Character Quotes

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Hands Quotes

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

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When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Nature Quotes , Character Quotes

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Character Quotes , Passion Quotes

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes