One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Diphilus, of Sinope, was a poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander. Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens, but he led a wandering life, and died at Smyrna.
