The Royal Succession by Maurice Druon

Author:Maurice Druon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2011-09-22T22:06:29+00:00

If the patent of nobility which Philippe of Poitiers dictated himself after the ceremony was intended to honour the Holy Father through his brother, it nevertheless showed an astonishing aspect of the young Prince's mind. `It is not family wealth,' he wrote, `nor individual wealth, nor the other favours of fortune, which carry weight in the combination of moral qualities and meritorious actions. These are things which blind chance bestows on the deserving as on the undeserving, and which may happen equally to the worthy as to the unworthy ... On the other hand, every man establishes himself as the inheritor of his own actions and his own merits, while it is of no importance from whence we come, if indeed we even know from whom we come ...'

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