Just as a public act is worth more for its educational character, the most it deserves is a certificate of education. Beyond that, one already enters the realm of vanity, which, when it does not imprison, corrupts. Boasting is always vicious, and the good that is done by boasting is done with more merit in silence. Only with a lot of effort can one preserves the sincerity of the act by using it as an instrument to obtain social approval.