non enim tam mediocriter intumescunt quos nostra iudicia saeculi culpa fortunatos putant, ut de nominibus ipsorum quandoque reminiscendis sit posteritas laboratura: namque improborum probra aeque ut praeconia bonorum inmortalia manent.
For the men whom our judgment, thanks to the perversity of this age, ranks as fortunes favourites are swollen with no such ordinary conceit that posterity will some day find it hard to remember their names; for the infamies of the wicked are no less immortal than the praises of the good.
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