Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]

Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of read more

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.