Nunc vero postulamus, ut futuros principes doceas inertiae renuntiare paulisper, delicias differre paulisper, et saltern ad brevissimum tempus ex illo felicitatis somno velut excitari; induere praetextam quam cum dare possent occuparint, ascendere curulem quam detineant, esse denique quod concupierint, nee ideo tantum velle consules fieri ut fuerint.
But what we are asking now is that you teach future emperors to break away from their inertia and suspend their pleasures for a while, to rouse themselves for a moment at least, and not sleep away their good fortune: to put on the toga of office which is already in their possession as it is in their power to give, to mount the curule chair which they are keeping empty: in short, to be what they have really wished to be, and not to agree to become consul only to say they have been one.
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