Moral character

[Moral character]

Moral character or character is an evaluation of an individual's moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, loyalty, or virtue. The concept of moral character is not specific to a particular religion, culture, or country.

Quotes

 * “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals [...] We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate..” - Martin Luther King Jr.
 * "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."  -  Albert Einstein
 * "Character is doing what's right, even when no one is looking" - unknown

Exemplary literature
This was a genre in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature consisting of lives of famous figures, and using these (by emphasising good or bad character traits) to make a moral point. Examples include
 * Suetonius's De vita Caesarum (Lives of the Twelve Caesars)
 * Plutarch's Parallel Lives
 * Jerome's De viris illustribus
 * Petrarch's De viris illustribus
 * Chaucer's The Monk's Prologue and Tale and The Legend of Good Women
 * Boccacio's On Famous Women and Concerning the Falls of Illustrious Men
 * ''Christine de Pizan's' The Book of the City of Ladies
 * Mirror for Magistrates by various Tudor authors