Come back with your shield - or on it
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.