haec imperia conciliabant, haec iungebant adfinitates, haec in foro, haec intra privatos parietes plurimum poterant: patriae enim rem unusquisque, non suam augere properabat, pauperque in divite quam dives in paupere imperio versari malebat.
These qualities won magistracies, made family alliances, were most influential in the Forum and inside private walls. For everybody was eager to increase the countrys wealth, not his own, and would sooner live a poor man in a rich empire than a rich man in a poor one.
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