...persuading yourself that you will repair your infamy in your succeeding work, because painting does not die by means of its creation as music does, but for a long time will give testimony of your ignorance. And if you say that in correcting it time is spent which, put into another work, you would earn much, you must understand that money earned beyond the use of our living is not much, and if you want it in abundance you never finish using it, and it is not yours; and all the treasure that is not used is ours in one and the same way; and whatever you earn that does not serve your life is in another's hand without your leave. But if you study and well polish your works with the discourse of the two perspectives, you will leave works that will give you more honor than it will, because it honors only itself and not him who possesses it, who always makes himself a magnet of envy and a coffer of thieves; and the rich man's fame fails together with his life, while the fame of the treasure remains and not that of the treasurer. And much greater is the glory of the virtue of mortals than that of their treasures. How many emperors and how many princes have passed of whom no memory remains, and who only sought states and riches to leave fame of themselves? How many were those who lived in poverty of money to enrich themselves with virtue? And so much more has such desire succeeded for the virtuous man than for the rich man, as virtue exceeds riches itself. Do you not see that the treasure by itself does not praise its accumulator after his life, as science does, which is always witness and trumpet of its creator, because it is daughter of him who begets it, and not stepdaughter as is money? And if you say you can better satisfy your desires of gluttony and lust...