Quotes about Character

The highest good was the virtuous life. Virtue alone is happiness, and vice is unhappiness.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Betimes in the morning say to thyself, This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man; an unsociable uncharitable man. All these ill qualities have happened unto them, through ignorance of that which is truly good and truly bad.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you. Revere the

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.

It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.

Honesty is the best policy

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.