Excerpt from Oeuvres Compl tes de Rollin, Vol. 4: Trait des tudes On reconna t ici clairement que ce ne sont ni les richesses, ni la gloire des anc tres ni la majest du tr ne, qui rendent les hommes v ritablement estima bles; et que, quelque brillant et quelque blouissant que puisse para tre tout ce vain clat, il est enti rement obscurci et effac par le vrai m rite et la solide vertu. Quelle id e l'histoire que nous venons de rapporter nous laisse -t-elle des princes dont il y est parl ? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.