neque enim quisquam etiam sibi bene conscius plus facere praesumpsit, si quis tamen vestrae correptionis orbitam non reliquit, quippe cum ea ipsa, quae legimus, parcentis verba censurae maxuma emendationis incitamenta sint.
For no man, not even one with a perfect conscience, has ever presumed to do more than give a kindly reproof (provided always that the offender has not passed beyond the range of your rebuke), since those very words of sparing censure which I read out to him are the most powerful incentives to reform.
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