Character calls forth character.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections.)
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Character calls forth character.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections.)
To do just the opposite
is also a form of imitation.
(Lichtenberg: Aphorisms.)
One can acquire
anything in solitude
except character.
(Stendhal: Love.)
People who cannot bear
to be alone are generally
the worst company.
(Albert Guinon.)
We all come down to dinner,
but each has a room to himself.
(Walter Bagehot: Literary Studies.)
When men are easy in themselves,
they let others remain so.
(Lord Shaftesbury: Characteristics.)
No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
(Vauvenargues: Reflections and Maxims.)
When we ask advice
we are usually looking
for an accomplice.
(Marquis de la Grange: Pensées.)
Wrongs are often forgiven,
but contempt never is.
Our pride remembers it for ever.
(Lord Chesterfeld: Letters.)
Somebody’s boring me …
I think it’s me.
(Dylan Thomas.)