haec quidem gloria, si voluptates sic reliquisset, ut nec uxori coniugaretur; sed, etsi forte contingat ad bonos mores ab errore migrare, paucorum est incipere de maxumis, et eos, qui diu totum indulserint sibi, protinus totum et pariter incidere.
It would, of course, have been truly splendid if he had renounced his life of pleasure so completely as not even to take a wife; but while one may succeed in altering course from error to virtue, it is given to few to begin at the highest level, and it is rare for those who have long allowed themselves every licence to cut off all indulgence immediately and simultaneously.
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