sic quoque, cum fatigatio gratuita possit libenter admitti, libentius tamen atque amabilius verecundi leguntur, idque cum expensa; tantum impudentia sese ingerentum ponderis habet, etiam fasci cum tributario nomine ipsorum nil superfunditur.
But even so, though exertions that cost nothing may be readily acceptable, yet modest men are chosen more willingly and more pleasurably even though their election entails expenditure'so obnoxious is the shamelessness of pushing self-seekers, even when nothing has to be added to the burden of taxation on their account.
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