Indifference to religion, due to thought, strengthens character.
Character Quotes
When one’s character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it. (Marquis of Halifax)
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Every man has three characters; that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Respect for character, though often a salutary restraint, is but too often overruled by other motives. When numbers of men act in a body, respect for character is often lost, just in proportion as it is necessary to control what is not right.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of man I should I be, if all of a sudden I became rich and powerful. Do you think that anybody can tell you what his future character will be? Tell me, if you became a lion, what sort of lion would you be?
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
With red hair, a black face, a cloven foot, and blear eyes, you show the world a prodigy, Zoilus, if you are an honest man.
