"Be the kind of person that you..." - Quote by Socrates
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
More by Socrates
“There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.”
“An unexamined life is a life of no account.”
“It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.”
More on Authenticity
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.”
“People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.”
“Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.”
More on Character
“The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)”
“Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.”
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”