(102) Gods and men honour those who are slain in battle. R. P. 49 a. (103) Wantonness needs putting out, even more than a house on fire. R. P. 49 a. (104) It is not good for men to get all they wish to get. It is sickness that makes health pleasant; evil,[360] good; hunger, plenty; weariness, rest. R. P. 48 b. (105-107) It is hard to fight with one’s heart’s desire.[361] Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul. R. P. 49 a. (108, 109) It is best to hide folly; but it is hard in times of relaxation, over our cups. (110) And it is law, too, to obey the counsel of one. R. P. 49 a. (111) For what thought or wisdom have they? They follow the poets and take the crowd as their teacher, knowing not that there are many bad and few good. For even the best of them choose one thing above all others, immortal glory among mortals, while most of them are glutted like beasts.[362] R. P. 31 a. (112) In Priene lived Bias, son of Teutamas, who is of more account than the rest. (He said, “Most men are bad.”) (113) One is ten thousand to me, if he be the best. R. P. 31 a. (114) The Ephesians would do well to hang themselves, every grown man of them, and leave the city to beardless lads; for they have cast out Hermodoros, the best man among them, saying, “We will have none who is best among us; if there be any such, let him be so elsewhere and among others.” R. P. 29 b. (115) Dogs bark at every one they do not know. R. P. 31 a. (116) ... (The wise man) is not known because of men’s want of belief. (117) The fool is fluttered at every word. R. P. 44 b. (118) The most esteemed of them knows but fancies;[363] yet of a truth justice shall overtake the artificers of lies and the false witnesses. (119) Homer should be turned out of the lists and whipped, and Archilochos likewise. R. P. 31. (120) One day is like any other. (121) Man’s character is his fate.[364] (122) There awaits men when they die such things as they look not for nor dream of. R. P. 46 d. (123) ... [365]that they rise up and become the wakeful guardians of the quick and dead. R. P. 46 d. (124) Night-walkers, Magians, priests of Bakchos and priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.... (125) The mysteries practised among men are unholy mysteries. R. P. 48. (126) And they pray to these images, as if one were to talk with a man’s house, knowing not what gods or heroes are. R. P. 49 a. (127) For if it were not to Dionysos that they made a procession and sang the shameful phallic hymn, they would be acting most shamelessly. But Hades is the same as Dionysos in whose honour they go mad and keep the feast of the wine-vat. R. P. 49. (129, 130) They vainly purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, just as if one who had stepped into the mud were to wash his feet in mud. Any man who marked him doing thus, would deem him mad. R. P. 49 a. Footnote 330: