The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition. - Plutarch

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.

So they cut their hair short in front, that their enemies might not grasp it. And they say that Alexander of Macedon for the same reason ordered his generals to have the beards of the Macedonians shaved, because they were a convenient handle for the enemy to grasp.