Character Quote by Francis Bacon

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows…

— Bertrand Russell

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to…

— Confucius

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for…

— Walter Raleigh

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his…

— Plato

He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or…

— Nilakanta Sri Ram

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he…

— Samuel Johnson

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of…

— Anonymous

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other…

— Edmond de Goncourt

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every…

— Alexander von Humboldt

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which…

— George Eliot

“For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he would rather…

— Seneca