32. Higher offices open an easier way to vices. Desired dignities cannot be administered without sin.—As if he said: They groan together who are associated with their glory out of delight. But the very occupation of secular dignities is pressed by vices the easier, the more it is weighed down by greater cares. For would that the human mind were able to see and avoid sins even in times of quiet. Because therefore he saw that the desired heights of things cannot be administered without sins, and that whatever is unlawful is perpetrated is not hidden from the divine wrath, aptly following he added: