quid mihi tu ritus solitos, Romane senator, obiectas cum scita patrum populique frequenter instabilis placiti sententia flexa novarit? nunc etiam quotiens solitis decedere prodest praeteritosque habitus cultu damnare recenti, gaudemus conpertum aliquid tandemque retectum, quod latuit; tardis semper processibus aucta crescit vita hominis et longo proficit usu.
Why, senator of Rome, do you bring up accustomed usages against me, when many a time a decision has not stood fast and a change of mind with regard to it has altered decrees of senate and people? Even now, whenever it is for our benefit to depart from wonted ways and reject manners of the past for a newer style, we are glad that something which was unknown before has been discovered and at last brought to light; ever by slow advances does human life grow and develop, improving by long experience.
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