quod superest, deum posco, ut te filii consequantur aut, quod [te] plus decet velle, transcendant et quicumque non sustinet diligere provectum, medullitus aestuantes a semet ipso livoris proprii semper exigat poenas, cumque nullas in te habuerit umquam misericordiae causas, habeat invidiae; siquidem iuste sub iusto principe iacet qui, per se minimus et tantum per sua maxumus, animo exiguus vivit et patrimonio plurimus.
For the future, I pray God that your children may follow in your path or (a more fitting wish) may outstrip you; and anyone who cannot bear to love you in your onward progress, may he ever in the angry soul of him suffer self-inflicted seething tortures as punishment for his own jealousy; and never finding in you any grounds for pity, may he only find grounds for envy; for justly under a just emperor is he demoted who, unimportant in himself and important only for his possessions, lives his life small in mind though large in patrimony.
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