Temperament Quote by William Shakespeare

“When you are powerful enough; everyone seems to be kind, loyal and devoted.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?”

— Mary Shelley

“For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?”

— Bob Sorge

“Men who demand the most loyalty tend to be the least loyal pricks,”

— Michael Wolff

“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his…

— Maxim Gorky

“It is the Level-headed Man, the Calm Man, of Good Judgement and cool nerves, of Great sympathy and love, who does good work and…

— Swami Vivekananda

“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I gave him the qualities I personally admire in either sex—intelligence, courage but not foolhardiness, sensitivity but not sentimentality, and reticence.”

— P. D. James

“time, stability and loyalty, which are not things usually to be reaped without first being sown. Perhaps,”

— Paul Scott

“The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

— Frank Herbert

“Someone strong, but not overbearing. Fiercely devoted, but not crazed. Someone who could protect me, but gentle enough to reach into my soul without…

— Heather Burch