To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
Philip SidneySelf-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
Philip SidneyThe many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
Philip SidneyIndeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
Philip Sidney