Ipsi quoque improbi, si eis aliqua rimula virtutem relictam fas esset aspicere vitiorumque sordes poenarum cruciatibus se deposituros viderent, compensatione adipiscendae probitatis nec hos cruciatus  esse ducerent defensorumque operam repudiarent ac se totos accusatoribus iudicibusque permitterent.
And the wicked themselves, if it were allowable to glimpse through some small chink the virtue they had abandoned, and see that they would lay aside, through the torments of their punishment, the filth of their vices, they would not think them torments, weighing against them the benefit of acquiring goodness, and they would reject the efforts of defence lawyers and give themselves wholly over to their prosecutors and judges.
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