When I was a child, I had all the joys and triumphs of a child, and I reaped the treasures of youth as I grew up, and all the glories of a man when I came to man'e estate.

And as the years passed, I seemed to find my powers grow with them, so that I never felt my old age weaker than my youth, nor can I think of anything I attempted or desired wherein I failed.

[7] Moreover, I have seen my friends made happy by my means, and my enemies crushed beneath my hand.
This my fatherland, which was once of no account in Asia, I leave at the height of power, and of all that I won I think I have lost nothing.
Throughout my whole life I have fared as I prayed to fare, and the dread that was ever with me lest in days to come I might see or hear or suffer evil, this dread would never let me think too highly of myself, or rejoice as a fool rejoices.

[8] And if I die now, I leave my sons behind me, the sons the gods have given me; and I leave my fatherland in happiness, and my friends.

Surely I may hope that men will count me blessed and cherish my memory.