Der Fürst, der das Uebel erst alsdann erkennt, wenn es schon da ist, kann nicht für weise gehalten werden, was ja Wenigen gegeben ist.
And if the first disaster to the Roman Empire should be examined, it will be found to have commenced only with the enlisting of the Goths; because from that time the vigour of the Roman Empire began to decline, and all that valour which had raised it passed away to others.