# Institutio Oratoria 7.2.33

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, Chapter 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.2.33

probi vero mores et anteactae vitae integritas nunquam non plurimum profuerint. si nihil obiicietur, patronus quidem in hoc vehementer incumbet, accusator autem ad praesentem quaestionem, de qua sola iudicium sit, cognitionem adligabit dicens neminem non aliquando coepisse peccare, nec per encaenia ducendum scelus primum.

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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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