Quamquam quis omnium vel exigue rerum peritus culpare auderet, si mulier vidua et mediocri forma, at non aetate mediocri, nubere volens larga dote et molli condicione invitasset iuvenem neque corpore neque animo neque fortuna paenitendum? Virgo formosa etsi sit oppido pauper, tamen abunde dotata est; affert quippe ad maritum novum animi indolem, pulchritudinis gratiam, floris rudimentum.
And yet is there anyone, even someone with only slight experience of life, who would dare to find fault if a widowed woman, of middling looks but not middling age, and inclined to marry, had attracted a grown man of no slight attractiveness, character, or fortune, thanks to her ample dowry and easy terms? A beautiful virgin may be very poor, but still is amply endowed, since she brings to her new husband the cast of her thoughts, the charm of her beauty, the freshness of her bloom.
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