To insult and to humiliate is characteristic of the weak. The strong find pleasure in uplifting, supporting, and helping others. Source: Internet
God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits of passion, jealousy, hatred and slandering the brethren; in short, everything that is characteristic of the old man. Poemen
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Henry David Thoreau
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. Freeman Dyson
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. Sigmund Freud
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. John Maynard Keynes