_ 215 _ men are lost he felt their deeds would be left unknown. Only death changes malicious envy into praise; death makes everything clear, because she removes the mask. He who has achieved authority through evil ways will be known for such. This should be sufficient consolation to alleviate the suffering of life, because death quickly bestows a surer and more glorious life. Boetius thinks with acuteness that when one is forgotten, that is a second death. The fact of not being forgotten should therefore be a source of happiness. Thus, Matias de Albuquerque sought to praise the memory of his uncle through the erection of the statue, the sight of which called to mind one who was more perfect and had other heroic virtues. Matias de Albuquerque did not stop at this object of his affections, because he always showed the same consideration to all those in whom shone similar virtues. The portraits were not cared for in the same way, for when he was Viceroy he took down all those of his antecedents. He was the first man to bring them to Portugal - in the same way as Aeneus had brought his Penates to Rome and placed them in his chamber, as if in an ordinary temple, or as Phaethon had done where all the great in the land of Portugal might come to see and
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