O vere principis atque etiam dei curas, reconciliare aemulas civitates, tumentesque populos non imperio magis quam ratione compescere; intercedere iniquitatibus magistratuum, infectumque reddere quidquid fieri non oportuerit; postremo velocissimi sideris more omnia invisere omnia audire, et undecumque invocatum statim velut adesse et adsistere! Talia esse crediderim, quae ille mundi parens temperat nutu, si quando oculos demisit in terras, et fata mortalium inter divina opera numerare dignatus est; qua nunc parte liber solutusque tantum caelo vacat, postquam te dedit, qui erga omne hominum genus vice sua fungereris.
This is indeed the true care of a prince, or even that of a god, to settle rivalry between cities, to soothe the passions of angry peoples less by exercise of power than by reason: to intervene where there has been official injustice, to undo what should never have been done: finally, like a swift-moving star, to see all, hear all, and be present at once with aid wherever your help is sought. It is thus, I fancy, that the great Father of the universe rules all with a nod of the head, if he ever looks down on earth and deigns to consider mortal destinies among his divine affairs. Now he is rid of this part of his duties, free to devote himself to heavens concerns, since he has given you to us to fill his role with regard to the entire human race.
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