Ambitio multos mortalis falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re sed ex commodo aestumare, magisque voltum quam ingenium bonum habere.
The desire for advancement drove many mortals to become false; to have one thought locked in their breast, another ready on their tongue; to value friendships and enmities not on their merits but by the standard of self-interest, and to show a good front rather than a good heart.
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