“First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others”
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“First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others”
“Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness”
“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis”
“When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'”
“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards”
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength”
“The vices of some men are magnificent”
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”
“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards”
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
“In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer”
“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy”
“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion”