quid ergo modicam fortunam quasi praecipuum generis humani malum diurnis <atque nocturnis> conviciis laceramus, quae ut non abundantibus ita fidis uberibus Publicolas Aemilios Fabricios Curios Scipiones Scauros hisque paria robora virtutis aluit? exsurgamus potius animis pecuniaeque aspectu debilitatos spiritus pristini temporis memoria recreemus:
Why then do we rail at a moderate fortune in our daily and nightly grumbles as if that were mankinds chief cross? Such a fortune suckled faithfully if not abundantly the Publicolae, Aemilii, Fabricii, Curii, Scipios, Scauri, and other pillars of virtue equal to these. Rather let our hearts rise up and let us refresh our spirits, enfeebled by gazing upon money, with the memory of the days of yore.
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