LXVIII.
Toto coelo errant isti Politici, qui censent Re∣gis Optimi Inimicos, astutos & subdolos Homi∣nes, Beneficiis, Honoribus puta & Praefecturis col∣latis,
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Toto coelo errant isti Politici, qui censent Re∣gis Optimi Inimicos, astutos & subdolos Homi∣nes, Beneficiis, Honoribus puta & Praefecturis col∣latis,
recte conciliari, ne noceant: interim subdi∣tos fideles, Regiaeque salutis ex animo studiosos (quique Cicatrices Amoris indices in fronte ge∣runt) nempe ex quibus haud facile quicquam mali publice oriatur, negligi posse. Politia plane Ethnica! Ethnici enim, praeterito Deo boni om∣nis Auctore, Diabolum adorabant ne male mulcta∣rentur. Quid tum postea? Perverso hoc con∣silio, Inimici augentur, Amici deficiunt; dum ap∣paret, quod opponere se Regentibus, viam ape∣rit ad Dignitates. At si qui ex eo numero spe sua fallantur (neque enim sufficit Regnum remuneran∣dis omnibus) dein novae Turbae fiunt, & recrudes∣cunt Factiones. Quapropter, asserit Dux Illustris∣simus, Politiam esse optimam, Inimicis Reipublicae poenas infligere, Amicos beneficiis ornare; subditos fidos factiosis anteponere. Ita demum, cum nulla detur ad Honores via nisi per Virtutem, quae per se non placuit, saltem propter praemia sua co∣letur.