Before sending my opinions forth across the chasm of surmise, I prefer to wait until they’re provided with a more solid bridge of fact. - L. Sprague de Camp

So you studied under Lysippos? Didn't you find him a somewhat thorny character?"
"At times, though I should prefer a difficult teacher of the first rank to an amiable mediocrity.

In all these fights and flights I have never known that mad joy of battle of which the epics speak. Before the combat I am frightened, during it I am confused, and after it I am weary and disgusted.

I must be stupid," I said. "I don't doubt that his talk is full of profound hidden truths, but I find it terribly hard to understand."
Dikaiarchos laughed. "I'll tell you a secret, Chares. I cannot understand it, either."
"You, sir?"
"Yes. It may be that we are both stupid, or it may be that there is nothing to understand. It is a good practical rule that, if a man cannot explain himself in terms that any reasonably intelligent listener can comprehend, he doesn't know what he is talking about himself.