My reading from Brevissima today was the rather cynical couplet titled "De Munere" by the editor (#84), from Michaelis Verinus (c. 1469-c.1487), Disticha:
Quid non argento, quid non corrumpitur auro?
Qui maiora dabit munera, victor erit.
Roughly, in English:
What is not corrupted by silver, by gold?
He who gives the greater gifts, he will be the winner.
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