Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon…

— Anonymous

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A person of good character is he who is modest, says little, causes little trouble, speaks the truth, seeks the good, worships much, has…

— Abu Hamed Muhammad al-Ghazzali

“The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better? For who knows what is good for man while he lives the…

— Ecclesiastes 6:11-12

“-though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise”

— Gabrielle Burton

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world…

— Mary Shelley

“then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and…

— James A. Michener

“People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his…

— Min Jin Lee

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

— John C. Maxwell

“I was born a gentleman, though I have been nothing but a poor travelling trader and hunter all my life. Whether I have remained…

— H. Rider Haggard