Even if they live long they will be held of no account, and finally their old age will be without honor.

For old age is not honored for length of time, nor measured by number of years;

“This is the man whom we once held in derision and made a byword of reproach—we fools! We thought that his life was madness and that his end was without honor.

Therefore if you delight in thrones and scepters, O monarchs over the peoples, honor wisdom, that you may reign for ever.

Because of her I shall have glory among the multitudes and honor in the presence of the elders, though I am young.

and when he was in prison she did not leave him, until she brought him the scepter of a kingdom and authority over his masters. Those who accused him she showed to be false, and she gave him everlasting honor.

For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement, made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him; and he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being, and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations.

When men could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance, they imagined their appearance far away, and made a visible image of the king whom they honored, so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present.

and the multitude, attracted by the charm of his work, now regarded as an object of worship the one whom shortly before they had honored as a man.