Funeral Pomp Is More For

There Are Some Who Never Would Have Loved If They Never Had Heard It Spoken Of.

The Desire Which Urges Us To Deserve Praise Strengthens Our Good Qualities, And Praise Given To Wit, Valour, And Beauty, Tends To Increase Them.

Youth Changes Its Tastes By The Warmth Of Its Blood; Age Retains Its Tastes By Habit.

Moderation Is Represented As A Virtue In Order To Restrain The Ambition Of Great Men, And To Console Those Of A Meaner Condition In Their Lesser Merit And Fortune.

The Sure Mark Of One Born With Noble Qualities Is Being Born Without Envy.