Long Life, Short Art

charms, which laid claim to our love for you much more—when you were among us—than these external things made by work and hand? I could bring forward many things here, but to be silent about the rest, it is truly a sin to pass over this. When your Princes had placed you in charge of the highest affairs, you were so far from doing anything arrogantly, or speaking as if you were superior, that by your kindness, modesty, and the affability of your speech, you set yourself further apart from the common herd of men. Your example was a silent reproach to some who, when they see that fortune has smiled upon them more kindly, lift their eyebrows and think no man—