Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man's character is his fate.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.