[00:05.05]092.On the Instability of Human Glory [00:11.92]What then is the work of life? What the business of great men, [00:16.64]that pass the stage of the world in seeming triumph as these men we call heroes have done? [00:23.12]Is it to grow great in the mouth of fame and take up so many pages in history? [00:29.63]Alas! That is no more than making a tale for the reading of posterity till it turns into fable and romance. [00:38.30]Is it to furnish subjects to the poets, and live in their immortal rhymes as they call them? [00:44.96]That is, in short, no more than to be hereafter turned into ballad and song and be sung by old women to quiet children, [00:53.95]or at the corner of the street to gather crowds in aid of the pickpocket and the poor. [01:00.09]Or is their business rather to add virtue and piety to their glory, [01:04.81]which alone will pass them into eternity and make them truly immortal? [01:10.05]What is glory without virture? A great man without religion is no more than a great beast without a soul. [01:18.33]What is honour without merit? [01:20.48]And what can be called true merit but that which makes a person be a good man as well as a great man?

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