“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”– Plato “There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld “Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”– Plutarch