Aristotle quotes on character

But, to speak more generally, that which is individual and has the character of a unit is never predicable of a subject
Source: Aristotle, The Categories

These considerations will harmonise also with what we said at the commencement:

Rhythm alone, without harmony, is the means in the dancer's imitations; for even he, by the rhythms of his attitudes, may represent men's characters, as well as what they do and suffer
Source: Aristotle, Poetics

They do much better who enumerate the different virtues as Georgias did, than those who thus define them; and as Sophocles speaks of a woman, we think of all persons, that their 'virtues should be applicable to their characters, for says he, "Silence is a woman's ornament," but it is not a man's; and as a child is incomplete, it is evident that his virtue is not to be referred to himself in his present situation, but to that in which he will be complete, and his preceptor
Source: Aristotle, Poetics

It so happened that, when he was about to enact the Seisachtheia, he communicated his intention to some members of the upper class, whereupon, as the partisans of the popular party say, his friends stole a march on him; while those who wish to attack his character maintain that he too had a share in the fraud himself
Source: Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution

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