Ability Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.YOU MAY ALSO LIKE ยปI add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.Ability without honor is useless.Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.