Strong Characters

Famous quotes containing the words strong and/or characters:

“One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and ... powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)