Tum ego: Scis, inquam, ipsa minimum nobis ambitionem mortalium rerum fuisse dominatam. Sed materiam gerendis rebus optavimus quo ne virtus tacita consenesceret.
You know yourself that ambition for mortal things governed me very little; but I wanted the chance to take an active part in affairs of state, so that what powers for good I possess might not wither with age unused.
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