These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

Character is long-standing habit.

The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?