Burke quotes from Horace (Epistles, 1. xix. 12), a gibe against those who think that wine drinking makes a poet.
"Suppose a man with rough and stern countenance, barefoot and with the texture of a scanty toga, were to ape Cato, would he, therefore, reproduce the virtues and morals of Cato?"
It takes something more than the philosopher's garb to make a philosopher.