At nisi purgatumst pectus, quae proelia nobis atque pericula tunc ingratis insinuandum! quantae tum scindunt hominem cuppedinis acres sollicitum curae quantique perinde timores ! quidve superbia spurcitia ac petulantia? quantas efficiunt clades! quid luxus desidiaeque? haec igitur qui cuncta subegerit ex animoque expulerit dictis, non armis, nonne decebit hunc hominem numero divom dignarier esse?' cum bene praesertim multa ac divinitus ipsis immortalibu de divis dare dicta surit atque omnem rerum naturam pandere dictis.
But unless the mind is purged, what battles and perils must then find their way into us against our will! How sharp then are the cares with which lust rends the troubled man, how great also the fears! Or and vices what of pride, of filthy lust, of petulance? How great the devastation they deal! What of luxury and sloth? He therefore who has vanquished all these and cast them forth from the mind by words, not by swords, will it not be proper that he be held worthy to be counted in the number of the gods? Especially since he was accustomed to discourse often in good and godlike fashion about the immortal gods themselves, and to disclose in his discourse all the nature of things.
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