To honour them it is enough to imitate them_." _Letter_ 124: "_Let man aim at the good which belongs to him.

What is this good?
A mind reformed and pure, the imitator of God, raising itself above things human, confining all its desires within itself_." 5.

_Hypocrites like whited Sepulchres_.
"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." (Matt, xxiii.

27.) Seneca: "_Those whom you regard as happy, if you saw them, not in their externals, but in their hidden aspect, are wretched, sordid, base; like their own walls adorned outwardly.

It is no solid and genuine felicity; it is a plaster, and that a thin one; and so, as long as they can stand and be seen at their pleasure, they shine and impose on us: when anything has fallen which disturbs and uncovers them, it is evident how much deep and real foulness an extraneous splendour has concealed_." 6.