An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).
Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.