Quod ex aliena virtute sibi adrogant, id mihi ex mea non concedunt, scilicet quia imagines non habeo et quia mihi nova nobilitas est, quam certe peperisse melius est quam acceptam corrupisse.
That which they claim for themselves because of other people's achievements, they do not grant to me because of my own achievements. Perhaps it is because I do not have any ancestral images and because I have a newly created status of nobility. However, it is surely better to have established nobility from scratch than to tarnish it after inheriting it.