Scio enim scio nequid sublatius dicam, quam imperio congruit, quas rerum acerbitates, iam conclamatas et perditas, concordia vicissim sibi cedentium principum, meliorem revocavit in statum, cum appareat maiorum exemplo nostrorum, moderatores haec et similia cogitantes, fortunate beateque vivendi repperire quodam modo viam, et ultimo tempori posteritatique iucundam sui memoriam commendare.
For I know, I do know, not to say anything more arrogantly than befits my authority, what wretched conditions, even when everything seemed already lost and without remedy, have been brought to a better state by the harmony of rulers yielding in turn to each other. Indeed, it is clear from the example of our forefathers that rulers who have these and similar designs are able somehow to find a way of living happily and successfully and of leaving to posterity and to all future time a happy memory of their lives.
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