Quotes: Character (6)

The idea in the bold-face print is an interpretation of the quote that follows.

Character (6)
Character 134 "I endeavor to make circumstances submit to me, not me to circumstances." Horace. Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 181 "The countenance open, but the thoughts withheld." Italian. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 217 "The wolf changes his coat, not his disposition." Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 227 "A mind undisturbed in adversities; equanimity in difficulties." Horace. Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 240 "He has not lived ill who has lived and died unnoticed." Horace. Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 302 "He quarrels about anything or nothing." Horace. Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 324 "He hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity." Horace. Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 338 "Character is habit of long duration." Plutarch. Greek. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 355 "I see and approve of the better things; I follow the worse." Ovid. Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 326 "An insatiable desire for talking." Ovid. Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Character 119 We disguise ourselves from others and ourselves. La Rochefoucauld: "We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end by disguising ourselves from ourselves." Reflections or Moral Thoughts and Maxims, 1665

Character 26 To determine a person's character, find out what he loves. "For in the scrutinies for righteousness and judgment, when it is inquired whether such a person be a good man or no, the meaning is not, what does he believe? or what does he hope? but what he loves." Jeremy Taylor, “Of charity, Or the Love of god.” 1650. Gross, ed. Essays.