nempe, cum primum bonis actibus locus et ad trutinam iudicii principalis appensa tandem non nummorum libra sed morum, remansere illi, qui superbissime opinabantur solo se censu esse censendos quique sic vitiis ut divitiis incubantes volunt vanitatis videri alienam surrexisse personam, cum nolint cupiditatis notari suam crevisse substantiam.
To be sure, as soon as good actions got a fair field and the scales of the emperors judgment at last began to weigh morals, not money, those individuals were left far behind who arrogantly claimed they should be assessed only by their income'men who gloat over their vices as over their riches and who would wish the rise of a different class of person to be regarded as presumption, though they would not wish the increase of their own property to be censured as greed.
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