Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]
