Quanti tunc illi quantusque tu! Accidit quidem ut corpora quamlibet ardua et excelsa procerioribus admota decrescant, item ut altissimae civium dignitates collatione fastigii tui quasi deprimantur, quantoque propius ad magnitudinem tuam ascenderint, tantum etiam a sua descendisse videantur.
This was their finest hour, as it was also yours! Tall men, however erect, normally look smaller by the side of those who are taller still; in the same way, your subjects highest honours are diminished by comparison with your own exalted state, and the nearer they approach to your eminence, the more they seem to lose of their own.
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