74. Nor do I think it becoming to walk hurriedly,
except when a case of some danger demands it, or a real
necessity. For we often see those who hurry come up panting, and
with features distorted. But if there is no reason for the need
of such hurry, it gives cause for just offence. I am not,
however,
talking of those who have
to hurry now and then for some particular reason, but of those to whom,
by the yoke of constant habit, it has become a second nature. In
the case of the former I cannot approve of their slow solemn movements,
which remind one of the forms of phantoms. Nor do I care for the
others with their headlong speed, for they put one in mind of the ruin
of outcasts.