To me one man is ten thousand if he be the best. Dogs also bark at those they do not know. The fool is wont to be in a flutter at every word. Homer deserved to be cast out of the lists and flogged, and Archilochos likewise. One day is equal to every other.
Character is a man's guardian divinity.
There awaits men at death what they do not expect or think. Night-walkers, wizards, bacchanals, revellers, sharers in the mysteries. For what are esteemed mysteries among men they celebrate in an unholy way. They purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, as if one who had stepped into the mud to wash it off with mud. If any one of men should observe him doing so, he would think he was insane.