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Momenta desultoria

Constantijn Huygens

VI. IF thou desire Magistracy, learn to forget thy self; If thou undertake it, bid thy selfe farewell; Hee that looks upon a common cause with private eyes, looks through false Glasses. In the exercise of thy Politique Office, thou must forget both Ethicks and Oeconomicks. He that puts on a publicke Gown, must put of a private Person. FINIS.

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