igitur, si quid nostratium precatibus adquiescis, actutum in patriam receptui canere festina et adsiduitatem tuam periculosae regum familiaritati celer exime, quorum consuetudinem expertissimus quisque flammarum naturae bene comparat, quae sicut paululum a se remota inluminant, ita satis sibi admota comburunt.
So, if you consent to the petitions of your townsmen, hasten at once to sound a retreat back to your native town, and be quick to withdraw your duteous attendance from the dangerous intimacy of princes; for the most experienced observers well compare their friendship to the behaviour of flames, which illuminate what is a little way off, but consume that which comes within their reach.
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