Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholy, and Phlegmatic. Hippocrates theorized that there are four personality types&colon; choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic. These he compared to the choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic and sanguine respectively. People were thought to be either of the four temperaments&colon; choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, or sanguine. While most women were phlegmatic, individual women under certain circumstances could also be choleric. Even now, some still use words "choleric", "sanguine", "phlegmatic" and "melancholic" to describe personalities. But, unlike the Sanguine, the Choleric are vindictive. Choleric individuals tend to be more extroverted. His temperament was impulsive and choleric, and his education but modest. Quixano's temperament is thus choleric, the hot and dry humor. His name remains a byword for a choleric disposition. The first "epistle" is devoted to Gentlewomen making an apology for a female's choleric directness. It was traditionally held to be hot and excessively dry and ruled the choleric humor. Given their choleric "nature", men exhibited hot temperatures and were quick to anger. Medieval scholars believed most men were choleric, or hot and dry.