“No detail can be neglected § 7. as too insignificant to help us in ridding ourselves of pride.  The soul grows like its practices, and is formed and fashioned in accordance with its conduct.  Your appearance, your dress, your gait, your chair, your style of meals, your bed and bedding, your house and its contents, should be all arranged with a view to cheapness.  Your talk, your songs, your mode of greeting your neighbour, should look rather to moderation than to ostentation.  Give me, I beg, no elaborate arguments in your talk, no surpassing sweetness in your singing, no vaunting and wearisome discussions.  In all things try to avoid bigness.  Be kind to your friend, gentle to your servant, patient with the impudent, amiable to the lowly.  Console the afflicted, visit the distressed, despise none.  Be agreeable in address, cheerful in reply, ready, accessible to all.  Never sing your own praises, nor get other people to sing them.  Never allowing any uncivil communication, conceal as far as possible your own superiority.” Here several touches remind us of Theophrastus.  cf. Char. xxiii. and xxiv.