"Gloria Nihil Est"

     My daily reading from Brevissima today was very nice. It was from Giuseppe Gatti, Sales Poetici, Proverbiales, et Iocosi (1703); Gatti wrote a few on similar themes, but this one is quite good:

Est etenim virtus aliquid, nil gloria; sicut

Est aliquid corpus, corporis umbra nihil.

Roughly rendered in English:

As a matter of fact, virtue is something, glory is nothing, just as

A body is something, the shadow of a body is nothing. 

     This seems to be a theme Gatti explored quite a bit - the idea that glory and praise are but the shadow of virtue, and as such, they are nothing in and of themselves.