Nonne si pontifici maximo eligenda sit coniunx, aut hanc aut similem (ubi est autem similis?) elegerit? Quam illa nihil sibi ex fortuna tua nisi gaudium vindicat! Quam constanter non potentiam tuam, sed ipsum te reveretur! Idem estis invicem quod fuistis; probatis ex aequo, nihilque vobis felicitas addidit, nisi quod scire coepistis, quam bene uterque vestrum felicitatem ferat.
the Chief Pontiff himself, had he to take a wife, would choose her, or one like her'if one exists. From your position she claims nothing for herself but the pleasure it gives her, unswerving in her devotion not to your power but to yourself. You are just the same to each other as you have always been, and your mutual appreciation is unchanged; success has brought you nothing but a new understanding of your joint ability to live in its shadow.
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