"A nation’s ideals are usually a disguise, and are not to be taken as history. Courage and temperance, or manliness(andreia), and the meden agan or “nothing in excess” of the Delphic inscription — are the rival mottoes of the Greek; he realizes the one frequently enough, but the other only in his peasants, philosophers, and saints. CH. XIII The Morals and Manners of the Greeks, Sec V Character, P.377"