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He who has more than enough virtue but lacks it is humble; he who has more than enough wealth but lacks it is despicable. --------Lin Bu

A gentleman is not ashamed to cultivate, and he is not ashamed to see dirt. ------Xunzi A gentleman respects people's virtues and promotes their beauty, which is not flattery. -------Xunzi There is no greater merit than to do away with evil and love good, and there is no greater sin than to do evil instead of doing good. ------Jia Yi Although a gentleman dies, his reputation will never be destroyed. ------Wu Zetian: Being independent is not shameful; sleeping alone is not shameful. ------Liu Zhou The house is rich and the body is nourished by virtue. ------Book of Rites Habit is really a tenacious and huge force that can dominate life. Therefore, people should establish a good habit through perfect education from an early age. ------ Bacon The essence of self-cultivation is like human character, which ultimately comes down to the issue of moral sentiment. -------Emerson Cultivation is as important to the mind as food is to the body. -------Cicero No habit of thinking is formed in childhood. It will make him lose the ability to think for the rest of his life. ------Rousseau: In the affairs of the world, troubles often arise from subtle changes, while determination and warning come from gradual habits. ------Cheng Hao Habit is our powerful idol, and we all have to surrender to it. ------Aram Excellent moral character is the true wealth of the heart, and good education reflects this character. ------John Locke The essence of "extraordinary personality" is not a person's beard, blood, or abstract physical nature, but a person's social characteristics... -------Karl Marx Birds stay there, and virtuous people flock to it. ------Liu Xiang If a person can fill his heart with fraternity for mankind, act according to noble morals, and always revolve around the pivot of truth, then he will be living in heaven even if he is on earth. . --------Francis Bacon People cannot live like animals, they should pursue knowledge and virtue. --------Dante: Morality should be noble; conduct should be frank; behavior should be polite. ------Montesquieu Truth and virtue are the two close friends of art. Do you want to be a writer, a critic? Please be a virtuous person first. ------ Diderot A poet who has lost his personality is more despicable, inferior and sinful than a person who insists on writing poetry without poetic talent. ------Hugo Good moral character is cultivated by tenacious struggle against bad tendencies. -------Dexter Those who stand out and become famous rely on virtue, and this is my strength. ------Beethoven Virtue is like a famous incense, which becomes stronger after being burned or suppressed: luck is the hardest to reveal bad virtues, while misfortune is the best to reveal virtues. ------- Bacon Morality and talent are far better assets than wealth. Degenerate descendants can ruin the family status of the nobles and destroy the property of the wealthy, but morality and talent can make a mortal become a Unworthy gods. --------Shakespeare's awe-inspiring concept of "personality" makes us pay attention to the inconsistency of our behavior with it, and thus dampens our self-esteem. We clearly perceive the sublimity of our nature; this idea is natural and obvious even in the most ordinary aspects of human reason. Anyone who knows a little bit of shame will sometimes find that he can tell a harmless lie to get rid of some disgusting behavior. Or even to obtain some kind of benefit for his lovely and respectable friend, but he just because he was afraid of being secretly despised, and didn't he lie after all? As long as an upright person abandons his duties, he can escape from a certain miserable situation, and the reason why he is able to work tirelessly and persevere is not because he realizes that in this way he can set an example, maintain human dignity, respect it, and feel introspection without guilt. Aren't you afraid of conscience rebuke? --------Kant Those who are diligent in virtue can make a living without seeking wealth. -------- Saigo Takamori The honor of a man's virtue is countless times greater than the reputation of his wealth. Don’t you see how many people are poor in terms of money, but rich in terms of virtue? -------Leonardo Da Vinci Don't evaluate a person's virtue from extraordinary actions, but observe it from daily life behaviors. ------Pascal The power of virtue is ten times greater than the power of the body. -----Napoleon Immortal reputation exists only in virtue. ------Petrarch What good is life without virtue?

-------French proverb: Conquer people with virtue. -------Latin Proverb: What makes a person great is not his wealth and family status, but his valuable behavior and noble conduct. ------Ovie Character may be shown in important moments, but it is formed in unimportant moments. -------Phillips Brooks "When you lose your wealth, you lose nothing; when you lose your health, you lose something; but when you lose your character, everything is lost." ---------Anonymous The most virtuous people are those who are virtuous without showing it outwardly and still feel satisfied. ---Plato There is a kind of humble, unknown hero who has neither Napoleon's fame nor his great achievements. But if you analyze the character of this kind of person, even Alexander the Great of Macedonia will look eclipsed. ----------Hasek For virtue, it is not enough for us to be familiar with it. We must also work hard to cultivate it, use it, or adopt various methods to make ourselves good people. ----------Aristotle Talents can be cultivated in solitude, but character is best formed in the rough waves of the world. --------Goethe: If you are an emperor at the time, you may not be noble; if you are a poor man, you may not be humble. The difference between high and low lies in the good and bad conduct. -----Zhuangzi The husband's reputation and virtue are also the basis of public opinion. Virtue is the foundation of the country. -------Zuo Zhuan Anyone who establishes meritorious deeds also establishes his character as the foundation. Anyone who has knowledge and is able to achieve a great career must first establish his or her character. --------Xu Shichang No matter what the trend of the times and social fashions are, people can always rely on their noble qualities to transcend the times and society and follow their own correct path. ----------Einstein Some people think that the "noblest" qualities of human beings, including cooperation, altruism, patriotism, heroism in battle, etc., are the genetic results of war. ------Edward Without great character, there would be no great people, not even great artists or great actors. ----------Romain Rolland Morality can often make up for the shortcomings of intelligence, but intelligence can never make up for the shortcomings of morality. ------Dante If someone sells the water of life and asks others to pay for it with their personality, a wise person will never buy it; because it is better to die gloriously than to live in shame. ----------Sadie Not every person with a beautiful appearance has a perfect heart; because character lies in the heart, not in the appearance. ----------Sadie If your moral character is very noble, don't be sad because of your humble birth. Roses often grow among thorns. ------Saadi The palace of history is different from the current upper class society only in that it only opens its doors to hard work and virtue. No amount of wealth, reputation, or cunning can bribe, intimidate, or deceive the gatekeepers of Elisium. In a deeper sense, evil or vulgar people cannot enter the palace of history. ----------Ruskin Character is a very complex outcome, not only the outcome of consciousness, but also the outcome of knowledge, strength, habits, skills, adaptation, health, and most importantly, social experience. --------Makarenko If a person is not truly moral, he cannot be truly intelligent. Being shrewd and being smart are two very different things. A shrewd person carefully considers the interests of others. -------Heraclitus The true measure of a man's character is what he does when he knows no one will notice. -------Montesquieu Character can determine life, it is more important than talent. ------F. Saunders Great quality is innate. It is not only direct, but also has a power that is continuous, constantly developing and never disappears. Even if the person with this quality dies or the era in which he lives passes, this power will continue to exist, and its vitality may be stronger than his country and the language he speaks. --------Everett When man reaches the perfection of virtue, he is the most outstanding animal among all animals; but if he insists on having his own way. Without law and justice, he becomes the worst of all beasts. -------Aristotle A person's quality is his patron saint.

A Heraclitus character occupies three-quarters of our lives, it is the first and most important thing in our lives. ----------Arnold A person must be a person himself before he can feel a great personality and respect it. ------Goethe People who are not very discerning but have good character can often see through the tricks of the most cunning liar. -------- Goethe A person can best reveal his own character when he talks about the character of others. ------Richter A person's behavior is always restricted by his character. --------John Morley People should be honest, simple, fair, brave and kind. Only in this way can he have the right to enjoy the noble title of "man". ----------Kon Paustovsky Form lies in content, rhythm lies in power, and meaning lies in price. -------Tagore Never lower your personality and act like someone with a higher status than you. ----------George Malabe People think that the revelation of good and evil character is due to obvious actions, but they do not know that their character has been revealed without even realizing it. --------Emerson If a person's entire personality and entire life are dedicated to a moral pursuit, if he has such power, all other people will pale in comparison with this person. When he is small, we can see the sublime goodness in this person. --------Chernyshevsky Character is higher than intelligence - a great soul will strengthen life and thought. ----------Emerson In life, happiness is not the goal, but moral character is the criterion. -------- Beecher Personality is not formed by imagination. The hammer must be held well to cast it out of the mold. -------Smith Most of the people who feel guilty have good intentions, but their behavior--the determination to repair their personality and temperament--is very inactive and cowardly. -------Sanmao The correctness of language is the foundation of good style. -------Aristotle It is better to believe in one's character than in one's oath. -------Greek proverb Virtues can be divided into two types: one is the virtue of wisdom, and the other is the virtue of conduct. The former comes from learning, and the latter comes from practice. ------Aristotle Character is a person's inner self, reputation is a person's appearance. ------Shakespeare Character can add luster to youth, majesty to wrinkles and gray hair. ---Emerson If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. --------Modi, it's just because I lack a pair of eyes that are as flattering as others and a tongue that is good at flattering, which I think is shameful. Although without these, I can no longer be favored by you, but Only this makes me respect my own personality. --------Shakespeare The things that are ridiculed best reflect the character of the satirist. -------- Goethe Self-esteem is the foundation of a person's moral character. If self-esteem is lost, a person's moral character will disintegrate. -------Mrs. Stena On earth, the highest happiness for a child is personality. -------Goethe A person's character is more important than his body. ----------Cicero Morality is more beautiful than beauty. -------Italian proverb: A person's quality is the most important thing. If you have a bit of a dirty mind, you will not be an upright man. --------"Shi Dian·Yuan Ti Collection" Character is something that does not necessarily require success. ------- Emerson Once virtue takes up arms and fights against barbarism, victory will not be far away. -------Petrarch Beauty without virtue is fleeting; but in your beauty, there is a beautiful soul, so your beauty will always be there. --------Shakespeare The evaluation of a person should not be based on his wealth and background, let alone his level of knowledge, but on his true character. ------- Bacon Character is an inner strength, and its existence can play a direct role without resorting to any means. ------- Emerson To criticize the quality of a person's personality, we should not only look at what the person has done, but also his purpose and impulse. --------Hardy Don't use personality only as a means.

------Kant When the truth is certain to never be known, what a person does can reveal his character. ------Thomas Macaulay The most feared type of person is that his character is not obvious. What is the inner personality hidden under this vague coat? ----------Sanmao It is not money and property that make a person valuable. A person's value is judged by his moral character. -------- Seneca Economics determines personality. --------Xu Teli A person's personality can be shown from his eyes, smile, words, enthusiasm and attitude. -------- Joe Girard To be an upright person, you must combine the nobility of the soul with the wisdom of the spirit. Anyone who combines in himself these two different gifts of nature acts with the public interest as his guide. This interest is the principle of all human virtues. --------Helvetius Only human character can withstand the wind and rain. ------- W. Whitman Innocence and purity are the essence of a noble personality. It is the greatest honor for us to have no vicious and dirty thoughts in our lives. --------Anonymous A great personality forms a noble behavior: neither live for yourself nor die for yourself. -------- Romain Rolland Character and reputation are like the life and branches of a tree, whether the branches and leaves are lush or not, are all alive underground. ----------Warren One of the most endearing factors in a personality is that amazing smile. -----Carnegie No matter how destructive it is, the individual personality is authoritarian. ------Gracian Character is the most difficult to define, but it is the most influential and important thing in life. --------Western Proverb The influence of adult personality is the most useful sunshine that cannot be replaced by anything on young people. ---Ushensky Men's character is not a complete model of human beings, and similarly, women's character is not a complete model. Only when men and women complement each other can they develop into a complete personality. -------- Kitaro Nishida The influence of a person in his life lies in his conduct, not his position. Although his status is high, how can he influence his life without his character? ----------Smith If you want others to recognize you as a human being, you must first win your personality in your own country. --------Lu Xun The most important basic factor for our happiness in life is our personality. If there are no other reasons, personality is a constant factor in any environment. -------- Schopenhauer The foundation for building the Great Wall of Personality is morality. --------Tao Xingzhi Different characters lead to different hobbies. --------The essence of Cicero's "extraordinary personality" is not a person's beard, blood, or abstract physical nature, but a person's social characteristics ------- Karl Marx Birds stay here, and virtuous people flock to them. ------Liu Xiang If a person can fill his heart with fraternity for mankind, behave according to noble morals, and always revolve around the pivot of truth, then he will be living in heaven even if he is on earth. . --------Francis Bacon People cannot live like animals, they should pursue knowledge and virtue. --------Dante Morality should be noble; conduct should be frank; behavior should be polite. ------Montesquieu Truth and virtue are the two close friends of art. Do you want to be a writer, a critic? Please be a virtuous person first. ------ Diderot A poet who has lost his personality is more despicable, inferior and sinful than a person who insists on writing poetry without poetic talent. ------Hugo Good moral character is cultivated by tenacious struggle against bad tendencies. -------Dexter What good is life without virtue? -------French proverb: Conquer people with virtue. -------Latin Proverb What makes a person great is not wealth and family status, but valuable behavior and noble conduct. ------Ovie Character may be shown in important moments, but it is formed in unimportant moments. -------Phillips Brooks When you lose your wealth, you lose nothing; when you lose your health, you lose something; but when you lose your character, everything is lost. ---------Anonymous