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Non est, quod dicas omnium virtutium
tenera esse principia, tempore illis duramentum et
robur accedere. Non ignoro etiam quae in speciem
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laborant, dignitatem dico et eloquentiae famam et
quicquid ad alienum suffragium venit, mora convalescere—et quae veras vires parant et quae ad
placendum fuco quodam subornant,1 expectant annos,
donec paulatim colorem diuturnitas ducat—, sed
ego vereor, ne consuetudo, quae rebus adfert constantiam, hoc vitium mihi altius figat. Tam malorum
quam bonorum longa conversatio amorem induit.
1 subornant Gertz : subornantur A.
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