Si igitur reverendos facere nequeunt dignitates, si ultro improborum contagione sordescunt, si mutatione temporum splendere desinunt, si gentium  aestimatione vilescunt, quid est quod in se expetendae pulchritudinis habeant, nedum aliis praestent?
If, then, high offices cannot make a man worthy of respect; if, what is more, they are readily sullied by being infected by dishonest men occupying them; if they cease to be splendid as times change, and are cheapened in the judgement of different peoples, what beauty can they have in themselves which we should seek after or which, still less, they can confer on others?
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