Praise (n.) of yourself is the safer kind: list what you have done, then ask whether it is true — if true you were praised before an eminent witness, if false you made a fool of yourself without one.
Praise (n.) belongs only to what cannot be given or snatched away — not a man's slaves, wife or farm, which are all on the outside, but his soul and reason.
Praise (n.) from men you yourself cannot praise is no reason for pleasure.
Praise (n.) is due only to what is a man's own: house, servants, land and money are not in him but only around him.
Praise (n.) of the deserving is a good to both sides, as justice is a blessing to its possessor and to the man paid his due.
Praise (n.) belongs only to what is in a person, not around him: slaves, house, farm and income can pass to someone else tomorrow; the soul and its reason cannot.