Quis enim est tam modicilli ingenii qui non tanto meliorem consulem speret, quanto saepius fuerit? Alius se a continuo labore, etsi non desidiae ac voluptati dedisset, otio tamen et quiete recreasset; hic consularibus curis exsolutus principales resumpsit, tam diligens temperamenti, ut nec consulis officium princeps nec principis consul adpeteret.
for no one is so unimaginative as not to hope for a consul to prove all the better for repeated experience. Another man, though he did not abandon himself to the delights of idleness, would at least have sought relief from continuous service by an interval of peaceful retirement; but he rid himself of a consuls cares only to resume those of empire, so balancing his responsibilities that as prince he never sought to be consul, nor as consul to be prince.
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