For what can be more alien to the curia than religion? - Lapo da Castiglionchio

And so what kind of mindlessness is it that would rather have the high priests be poor instead of rich? One can read and hear that out of all peoples, all sects, and all religions the high priests have always been the greatest of men as well as the most wealthy.

Quae igitur hae tantae amentiae sunt, ut pontifices inopes habere quam locupletes malint, cum omnium gentium, omnium sectarum, omnium religionum pontifices summos semper viros eosdemque ditissimos fuisse et legere et audire potuerint?

... te, quem unice diligam, in haec curiae tempora miserrima ac perditissima incidisse, in quibus scelera, agitia, fraudes, fallaciae virtutis optinent nomen in precioque habentur, virtuti vero, probitati, rectis studiis honestisque artibus non modo praemium nullum neque honos propositus, sed ne usquam quidem relictus est locus.