The result is a third order, which believe that any doctrine of morals should seek to reform them, to discern the good with the bad, and to unravel in men what is vain, low and ridicule, from what they may have good, healthy and commendable, much delight in reading books, assuming the physical and moral principles by the hackneyed old and modern flow of first in their application to the customs of the time, correct men to each other, by the images of things that are so familiar, and which nevertheless they’d better not take their education.

This is the Treaty of characters of manners that Theophrastus has left us. He drew on the Ethical and major Morales of Aristotle, which he was the disciple. The excellent definition that we read at the beginning of each chapter are based on the ideas and principles of this great philosopher, and the background of the characters described herein is taken from the same source. It is true that he makes them clean by the extent that it gives them, and the ingenious satire he draws against the vices of the Greeks, and especially the Athenians.