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Nulum solum infelici gratius solitudine, ubi nullus sit qui miseriam exprobret

[to the wretched no spot is more welcome than one where there is no one to upbraid his misery]

prodigia in obitu principum sæpius contingunt

[prodigies frequently occur at the deaths of illustrious men]

omne sub regno graviore regnum [every throne is subject to a greater throne]

Prosperum et felix scelus virtus vocatur [vice, when successful, is called virtue]

“All my joys to this are folly,
None so divine as melancholy.”