Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? - Boethius

Video, inquam, quae sit vel felicitas vel miseria in ipsis proborum atque improborum meritis constituta.

For if vicious propensity is, as it were, a disease of the soul like bodily sickness, even as we account the sick in body by no means deserving of hate, but rather of pity, so, and much more, should they be pitied whose minds are assailed by wickedness, which is more frightful than any sickness.

Qui serere ingenuum uolet agrum
liberat arua prius fruticibus,
falce rubos filicemque resecat,
ut noua fruge grauis Ceres eat.