Book: Don Juan, or the Stone guest

Whether you are proud of their origin? And what have you done to justify your title of nobility? You think it's enough to wear a big name and have a coat of arms? And really the nobility of origin means anything with such a dishonest lifestyle? No, no, the origin is nothing without virtue! We are involved in the glory of our ancestors only when trying to resemble them. And the rays of their glory shining on us, oblige us to guard his honor, to follow in their footsteps and not to drop their high virtues, if we want to be their worthy descendants. Nothing means that you are descended from their ancestors; they would have renounced you, and all they glorified themselves, will not give you any advantage. On the contrary, in the glare of their valor your a disgrace even darker. Their glory is the light, brightly illuminating all the vileness of your actions. And know, finally, that a nobleman, leading a bad lifestyle is a monster that purity of morals - the first condition of true nobility, and that I pay less attention to a name by which the person subscribes, than on the things that he does and put up the son of some steward, if he is an honest man, than the son of the monarch, if he lives like you.