It were, peradventure, excusable in a painter or other artisan, or in a rhetorician or a grammarian, to endeavour to raise himself a name by his works; but the actions of virtue are too noble in themselves to seek any other reward than from their own value, and especially to seek it in the vanity of human judgments.
Endroit: CHAPTER XVI · ¶3044 Licence: Public domain · Source Le texte est donné tel que dans l'édition, sans retouche.