Flex. This is high-spirited and fierce, as if indeed because you are of noble rank you would not be a man.
Grym. Fine words, those!
Flex. Which part of you is it that makes you a man!
Grym. Myself as a whole.
Flex. Is it by your body, in having which you don’t differ from a beast?
Grym. By no means.
Flex. Not then yourself as a whole, but therefore by your reason and your mind?
Grym. What then?
Flex. If, therefore, you permit your mind to be uncultivated and boorish but cherish your body and take thought for it alone, don’t you transfer yourself from the human, into the brute, condition? But let us return to the topic on which we began to speak, for this digression, if I gave way to it, would lead us a long way from our purpose. If thou, therefore, yieldest place, and uncoverest thy head, for what do others take you?
Grym. For a noble, nobly instructed and brought up.