Cretes, cum acerbissima exsecratione adversus eos quos vehementer oderunt uti volunt, ut mala consuetudine delectentur optant, modestoque voti genere efficacissimum ultionis eventum reperiunt: inutiliter enim aliquid concupiscere et in eo perseveranter morari, exitio ea vicina dulcedo est.
When the Cretans want to pronounce their most bitter curse upon objects of their violent hatred, they pray that these delight in their evil courses. So by a moderate sort of prayer they find the most effectively revengeful issue. For to take a fancy to something contrary to expediency and obstinately persist in it is a pleasure that borders on destruction.
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