Character is destiny

Sir Maurice Bowra, in  "The Greek Experience" (1957), a book I bought as an undergraduate at Wadham College, Oxford, makes clear that the Ancient Greeks made much of the four cardinal virtues, Courage, Temperance, Justice and Wisdom, which together constitute the essential qualities of the good man.


There is another quality, the one which we tend to remember most vividly- Cunning, the cunning of the wily Odysseus.

Character is destiny, said Heraclitus.

Beware "the men of many wiles".

See also On the key to the Greek character (Ancient Greece)