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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, read more
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Only the mediocre are always at their best!
Only the mediocre are always at their best!
Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my read more
Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.
They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Character is what you are in the dark.
