Characteristics Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To think that there's one version of a man is ridiculous.

— Riley Stearns

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and…

— George Matthew Adams

“And what does it mean - ridiculous? wWhat does it matter how many times a man is or seems to be ridiculous? Besides, nowadays…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A mans flaws dont primarily outweigh their contributions to the world.

— Samule Kermis

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

— Samuel Johnson

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

— Albert Einstein

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that…

— Joseph Addison

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

— Brandon Sanderson

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe