First Principles Series Report posted August 17, 2007 by Allen Guelzo
Prudence, Politics, and the Proclamation
Constituit bonos mores civitati
princeps et vitia eluit, si patiens corum est, non tamquam probest,
sed tamquam invitus et cum magno tormento ad castigandum
veniat. [Justice is established, and vice eliminated, in the
state if the ruler is patient with vice, not as if he approved of
it, but as though he pursued it seemingly…