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La richesse du tyran, c’est la povreté
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des subjects.
XCVII.
Ce qu’est la rate au corps, l’Empereur[1]
disoit estre
Le sien fisque à l’endroit du menu populaire:
La rate grossissant, le corps devient phtisique,
Ainsi, le fisque accreu, decheoit la republique.
Commentaires.
La richesse d’un tyran, fait les subjects
belistres:
& au corps humain, si la rate s’enfle & s’accroist,
les autres parties du corps seichent & deviennent
rabides. Tibere, meschant
Prince, dit encor ceste
bonne sentence: Le Prince peut tondre son troupeau,
mais il ne le doit pas escorcher. Ceux qui veulent à
tousjours affermir le revenu de leur fisque, s’y doy-
vent tellement porter, que tout exces en soit banni: de
peur qu’il ne vienne à tarir, pource qu’il a esté cruelle-
ment recueilli. Trajan a esté grandement loué, pource que
sous luy souvent le fisque perdoit son
proces. Or ne
le perd-il jamais, que sous un bon Prince. L’empereur
Constans disoit, que les
richesses publiques estoyent
beaucoup mieux entre les mains de plusieurs, que non
pas au seul coffre du Prince. C’est un vray argument
pour asseurer qu’un Prince a sainctement regné,
quand on void que par son soing & diligence son
peuple s’est enrichi.
1. The Emperor Trajan (as clarified in the commentary), one of the five ‘Good Emperors’. See Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus, 42.21; Erasmus, Apophthegmata, 8.
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IN QUATUOR ANNI TEM-
pora.
The four seasons
Emblema 99.
Advenisse hiemem frigilla renunciat ales:
Ad nos vere novo garrula hirundo redit.
Indicat aestatem sese expectare cucullus:
Autumno est tantum cernere ficedulas.
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