Ac primum neminem in usu habes nisi aut tibi aut patri tuo aut optimo cuique principum dilectum aestimatumque; hos ipsos cotidie deinde ita formas, ut se non tua fortuna sed sua metiantur, et tanto magis digni, quibus honor omnis praestetur a nobis, quia non est necesse.
In the first place, you employ no one unless he was considered and chosen for you or your father or for one of the better emperors; then you train these men daily in such a way that they measure themselves against their own position, not yours: with the result that they prove all the more worthy of our high regard because it is not forced on us.
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