"There are," says Cicero, "two kinds of beauty: the one, grace; the other, dignity. Grace belongs to woman, dignity to man. We should, therefore, interdict ourselves all that could belie that dignity, either in dress, bearing, or gesture. There are movements among our wrestlers which are sometimes displeasing, and certain gestures of our comedians which are somewhat ridiculous; they would both recommend themselves to the public better by simplicity and decency. One should be neither uncouth nor over-refined; in regard to dress, the most modest is the best. Avoid, likewise, in your gait, either that excessive slowness (reminding one of the imposing gravity of sacred pomps), or too much haste, which is a sure sign of light-headedness and thoughtlessness."[97] These counsels will not appear minute to those who know that the soul is always ready to fall in with the body, and that the inner man sets himself naturally to the outer man. Disorder in manners, dress, words, bring insensibly with them disorder in thought, and the outward dignity is but the reflection of the dignity of the soul. CHAPTER XII. DUTIES RELATING TO EXTERNAL GOODS. SUMMARY. =The necessity of external goods.--Two sorts of duties.=--1. Those relative to _use_; 2. Those relative to _acquisition_. =Use of external goods.=--They are _means_ and not _ends_: _avarice_, _cupidity_, _prodigality_. It is not the degree of riches, it is the spirit in which we seek or possess them, which is the object of a moral rule. _Economy_, a mean between prodigality and avarice. Economy and saving are not only duties of _self-preservation_, but of _dignity_. Maxims of Franklin.--The prodigal and the miser, according to Aristotle. =Acquisition of external things.=--Universal law of work.--_Servile_ and _free_ work.--Nobility of work. Work is a _pleasure_, a _necessity_, a _duty_. =142. Necessity of external goods.=--External goods are as necessary to man as is his body: for it is in the first place a fundamental law of beings physically organized, that they only subsist by means of a continual exchange of their component parts, with foreign substances. Life is a circulation, a vortex: we lose and acquire; we return to nature what it gave us, and we take from it back again in exchange what we need to repair our losses. There follows from this that certain external things, especially food, are indispensable to our existence, and that it is absolutely necessary that we be in sure possession of them in order to be ourselves sure of life.