Capitolo 63
the eyes of the world, of the the semblance and of the semblance of the virtues. For example,
it is reported of Antony that, to a time in the course of his/her life,
having a desire to make a present of some kind to a certain person, in
change for a favor that he had received from him, he ordered his
treasurer to send a sum of money to his/her friend--and he/she called for the sum to
an amount is expeditious notably greater than really it was in demand under
the circumstances of the case--acting so, as he often did, under the
the influence of a hideaway and the generosity of uncalculating. The treasurer, more
prudent that his/her master, desired to reduce the amount but him you/he/she didn't do
you directly dare to propose a reduction; then he counted out the money, and
it placed him/it in a pole in a place where to pass Antony was, while he/she was thinking that
when Antony saw the amount, he would perceive that it was too much great.
Antony, in to pass from churches to that money that it was. It said the treasurer
what the sum that he had ordered to be expeditious as a present to was this way
a person, calling the understood individual. Antony was rapid to perceive
the object of the manoeuvre of the treasurer. He immediately responded, "Ah! it is
what everybody? I thought the sum I called it would make a best aspect that
that; send him/it doublings the amount."
To determine, under such circumstances as these to double a
extravagance only for the purpose to oppose the honest attempt of a
faithful servant to decrease him/it, did, also, in so cautious and delicate
a way, is more certainly a guilt. But it is one of those guilts for
what the world, in every century it will persist in admiring him and to praise the
perpetrator.
In a word, Antony became the object of general attention and favor
during his/her duration to Alexandria. If he attracted particularly
The attention of Cleopatra to this point or it doesn't appear. You, however,
_his._ strongly attracted Him admired his/her beauty that blooms her,
sprightliness and the intelligence and his/her launchings completions. Still you were,