proinde si futura magni pensitas, scribe clerico, si praesentia, scribe collegae; et hanc in te ipse virtutem, si naturalis est, excole, si minus, ut insiticiam appone, qua sodales vetustos numquam pro consequentum novitate fastidias.
Accordingly, if you attach importance to the future life, write to your cleric; if you value things present, write to your colleague; and if this virtue is innate in you, develop it; if not, graft it into your nature'I mean the virtue which will keep you from ever scorning old comrades for the novelty of later ones:
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