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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften Varia LH 42, 2
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animum
orte igitur  huc illuc versanti Ovidianum illud distichon in mentem
venit:
ipse decor recti, facti si praemia desint,
Non placet, et gratis poenitet esse probum.
Ex illo in contrarium verso, et ut sic dicam emendato, (quod eliaris majoris
elegantiae est) faciemus: IPSE DECOR AECTI PLACET, vel si quis plenius
malit: IPSEDECOR RECTI DER SE PLACET; quod magno et generoso princive
inprimis dignum est, ut recti conscientia et gloria virtutis magis etiam, quam proprio
commodo moveatur. Sane ipse decor recti nuspiam magis eminet quam in
olumna, quae tota constat scapo seu linea recta, et accedentibus ornamentis archite-
Ctonicorum ordinum, addentibus decorem recto, ne quid de superveniente sellae splendore
dicam, in quem assurgit. Et ipsa stella cum ascititiis escrantiis fortasse
elegantiis, quibus pector implere vacuum campi potest (velut circo in quo columna et
prospectu inde in aedes, hortos, mare, coelum) ad augendum significatum valet;
ut his omnibus licet detractis nuda per se columna suarum partium proprio ornatu
et symmetria placitura intelligatur.