Ipse semet canit

Is your trumpeter dead, that you arc obliged to praise yourself?. This may be considered as a caution against vain blasting. Act so as to be deserving of commendation; and though you should not meet with all the applause you may deserve, you will have the testimony of your own mind, which will be abundantly satisfactory. Hear, O ye Venetians, and I will tell ye which is the best thing in the world : «To contemn it». Sebastian Foscarius, sometime Duke of Venice, ordered this to be inscribed on his tomb.