"Character is simply habit long continued." — Plutarch

"Character is simply habit long continued."

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204 Quotes by Plutarch

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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must…
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
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