9/24/2023 0 Comments Caesar 3 juliusPrinces usually treat such persons familiarly and, quitting their throne like Luna, think they may WITH SAFETY unbosom to them. This fable seems to describe the tempers and dispositions of princes, who, being thoughtful and suspicious, do not easily admit to their privacies such men as are prying, curious, and vigilant, or, as it were, SLEEPLESS but rather such as are of an easy, obliging nature, and indulge them in their PLEASURES, without seeking anything farther but seeming ignorant, insensible, or, as it were, lulled ASLEEP before them. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: I read this possible parallel in Endnotes to the fable of Luna and Endymion in wiki:
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