Writing and publishing a book

The desire for letters, philosophy and the fine arts takes precedence over the love of our first duties and true glory. To this, once the talents have conquered the honors related to virtue, everyone wants to be a nice man, and no one cares to be a good human being. In this perspective appears again this other consequence, that one rewards in the human beings only the qualities which do not depend on them: because our talents are born with us, our virtues alone are ours.