Quod si quid est in nobilitate bonum, id esse arbitror solum, ut inposita nobilibus necessitudo videatur ne a maiorum virtute degeneret.
But if there is anything good in nobility, I think it is this only, that there seems to be an obligation imposed on the noble not to let it degenerate from the virtue of their ancestors.
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