John Milton Quote

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Aeschylus

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

They say miracles are past.

William Shakespeare

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Heraclitus

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Every man I meet was in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Man

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Socrates

• Man
• Woman

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Heinrich Heine

• Woman

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

• Man

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Charlie Chaplin

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Gustave Flaubert

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

• People

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Man
• Happiness

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Sophocles

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Plutarch