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And again: ’Tis character persuades, and not the speech.Kock, Com. Att. Frag. iii. p. 135; again quoted by Plutarch, Moralia, 801 C. No, rather it is both character and speech, or character by means of speech, just as a horseman uses a bridle, or a helmsman uses a rudder, since virtue has no instrument so humane or so akin to itself as speech. And: To women more than men is he inclined? Where there is beauty, either suits him best.Nauck, Trag.Graec. Frag., Adesp. No, 355; again quoted by Plutarch, Moralia, 766 F. But it were better to say Where there is virtue, either suits him best, of a truth, and there is no difference in his inclination; but the man who is influenced by pleasure or outward beauty to shift his course hither and thither is incompetent and inconstant. Again: God’s doings make the wise to feel afraid.Nauck, Trag.Graec. Frag., Adesp. No. 356. Not so by any means, but God’s doings make the wise to feel assured, but they do make the silly and foolish and ungrateful to feel afraid, because such persons suspect and fear the power which is the cause and beginning of every good thing, as though it did harm. Such then is the system of amendment.
