Pauci adeo ingenio valent ut non turpe honestumque, prout bene ac secus cessit, expetant fugiantve; ceteri, ubi laboris inertiae vigilantiae somno, frugalitatis luxuriae merces datur, eadem ista quibus alios artibus adsecutos vident consectantur, qualesque sunt illi, tales esse et videri volunt, et dum volunt fiunt.
Not many people have a strong enough character to pursue or shun good or evil with no thought of advantage; for the rest, when they see the reward for effort, activity and thrift going to idleness, torpor and extravagance, set about gaining similar advantages by the same devices as they see others use. Their one wish is to resemble such men, be one of them, until their wishing makes them so.
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