But it is not my business to sift too narrowly the lives of prelates and priests for fear I seem to
have intended rather a satire than an oration, and be thought to tax good princes while I
praise the bad. And therefore, what I slightly taught before has been to no other end but that
it might appear that there's no man can live pleasantly unless he be initiated to my rites and
have me propitious to him. For how can it be otherwise when Fortune, the great directress of
all human affairs, and myself are so all one that she was always an enemy to those wise men,
and on the contrary so favorable to fools and careless fellows that all things hit luckily to them?