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• Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. — Thomas Carlyle
• Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent… — Giacomo Casanova
• With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne
• Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein
• Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness… — Tryon Edwards
• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,… — Emile Durkheim
• History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." — Unknown Author
• No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their… — Thorstein Veblen
• Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes

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