Magna cura praecipuoque studio referendum est quantopere libidinis et avaritiae furori similis impetus ab illustrium virorum pectoribus consilio ac ratione summoti sint, quia ii demum penates, ea civitas, id regnum aeterno in gradu facile steterit ubi minimum virium veneris pecuniaeque cupido sibi vindicaverit: nam quo istae generis humani certissimae pestes penetrarunt, iniuria dominatur, infamia flagrat, vis habitat, bella gignuntur.
With much care and special zeal must we relate how effectively the onsets of lust and greed, resembling madness, have been repelled by good sense and reason from the hearts of famous men. For a household or a community or a kingdom will hold its ground easily and for all time where and only where the desire for carnal pleasure and for money asserts for itself a minimum of strength. For where these most sure plagues of the human race have penetrated, injustice is master, infamy is flagrant, violence dwells, wars are engendered.
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