7. Possess more excellent qualities (i.e. not only moral virtues).

8. It is reasonable that.

9. Who is at a standstill.

10. Feelings.

11. i.e. if a man is born to a title, the latent envy which might be aroused in men of lesser rank is extinguished; but envy is kindled, in men who fail to rise, towards those who gain such titles instead of inheriting them.

12. A smoother passage.