Library of Samuel Teleki: Part One

(Plutarch in Apophthegmata). Suetonius, in Book II, writes that Caesar Octavian Augustus, the champion of the empire and most skilled in the art of reigning, practiced eloquence and liberal studies from his earliest age, both eagerly and most laboriously; and that in reading the authors of both languages meaning Latin and Greek, he pursued nothing so much as precepts and examples that were wholesome, whether publicly or privately. Alphonsus, also King of Aragon and the Neapolitans, most illustrious and most courageous, used to say that the dead were the best counselors, for books do not know how to flatter or coax at one's beck and call; and, having finished the most atrocious wars, he did not blush to admit that he ascribed all his happiness to books and good letters, and that from them he had learned the use and laws of arms, 1.) Camerar. Med. Hist. Cent. III. cap. LXVII. being accustomed to say that he had lost that day on which he had not read something. Finally, the supreme Roman Pontiffs themselves 2.) Platina and Onuphr. Panvin on the Lives of the Pontiffs. Eugenius IV and Nicholas V, who first established the Vatican Library, and then Pius