A snake can change its skin but not its disposition.
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.
Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions.
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
It is not the position, but the disposition.
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my all...
Rob: It made sense to pool our collective loathing for the opposite sex, and while we were at it, you get to share a bed with somebody at the same time. We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain dispos...
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the d...
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
A repositioned mind is that willing to change. Change is a disposition of increase and that equates success
You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.
For my own part I continue of the same Disposition.
