QVAESTIONES. QUESTIONS.

...it will be free to use local customs, or to comply with those of others, especially if the variation does not conflict with what is honorable.

LXVII.
What should one's walk be like? Not "broken," which is a sign of the effeminate; not hurried, which is the mark of the furious; not wavering, which is the mark of drunkards; not with a slight limp, which belongs to those who think it a great ornament to wear feathers in their caps.

LXVIII.
For whom is it fitting to play with the feet while sitting, and to gesture with the hands? The former is for fools, the latter for those whose minds are not entirely sound.

DE CVLTV.

ON DRESS.

QVAESTIO PRIMA.

Must a more diligent account be taken of the decorum of dress? It must, since clothing becomes, in a way, the body itself, from which it is possible to conjecture the state of the mind.

II.
Can a fixed mode and style of dress be prescribed? It cannot: for not...