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"An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?" -- Axel Oxenstierna (b. 1583-06-16, d. 1654-08-28; Lord High Chancellor of Sweden 1612-1654), in a letter to his son in 1648. "Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?"