It is more honourable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ~ Petrarch
苦戰稱帝者，遠勝生而為王之輩。後者乃生而如此，前者則須雄才大略 ~ 彼特拉克，意大利桂冠詩人和學者，被稱為"人文主義之父"