8.21

Turn your Carkass the wrong side outwards, and be proud if you can ; And to improve your thought , consider what a Beauty, Age, Diseases, and Death, will make of you , And to keep you low in your Computations upon Fame, consider that both the Orator, and the Hero, the Men, and the Merit, will quickly go off, and be out of sight ; that the Earth is but a point, and that we live but in a Corner of this little Dimension neither. That Men differ in their Notions of Honour and Esteem ; and that even the same Person, is not of the same Opinion long together.