Personality and character Quotes

Our ideals are our better selves

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan

I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained

The weak in courage is strong in cunning

None but blockheads copy each other

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

Human nature is above all things lazy

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true

He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak