Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
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Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
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Dallington, Robert, 1561-1637.
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London :: Imprinted [by R. Field] for Edward Blount,
1613.
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Aphorisms and apothegms -- Early works to 1800.
Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Italy -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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APHORISME XII.
SO1 1.1goodly a thing is vertue in it selfe, as euen her shadow, if it be in Princes, doth much good: to par∣ticular men, by imitation; and to the publicke, by participation. Wherefore, though simulation of what is good, and dissimulation of what is euill, be vices in a priuate man, yet in a publicke person they are necessary euils. In whom, to be ouuert in expressing his nature, or free in venting his purpose, is a thing of dangerous consequence.2 1.8 For it harmes himselfe, and armes his enemie with preuention.
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Ferdinand was a Prince, in whom the semblance of vertue, friendship, and other good things were very familiar, as also the dissemblance of hate or displeasure which he bare towards any of his neighbour Princes. This made him more wary of giuing offence, or seeming offended, till he had fit time of taking re∣uenge. But his sonne Alphonso, a man in the strength of his age, and therefore of a hotter bloud and more fiery spirit, seeing his kinsman Galeazzo so much abused by the shamefull vsurpation of his vnkle Zforza, he could not temper his passions, but euen now when great plots were in laying against his father and coun∣trey, he breakes out with more freedome then prudence, into contumelious speeches and bitter menaces against Lodowick; which forced him the sooner, and with more violence to run into a warre that brought confusion to them both, and destru∣ction to their States.
Notes
1 1.1
Ex omni vita, simulatio, dissimulatio{que} tollenda. Cic. Off. l. 2. De priuata fateor, de publica valde nego. Nunquam enim regent, qui non tegent.* 1.2