Sorry, this is not my posting blog.

Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre or Count Axel Oxenstierna was the High Chancellor under King Gustav the Great. With King Gustav's military genius and Oxenstierna's diplomatic and administrative skills they won great success in the Thirty Year's War which lead to the Swedish Empire being a significant power in Europe for about one hundred years. Oxenstierna is probably best known in the English speaking world for "An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur", or rather the translation: "Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?". This was literally advice for his son, who was maybe a little worried before going to negotiate the Treaty of Westphalia. Incidentally, although not the best deal for Sweden, that treaty is best known as the start of the notion of Westphalian Sovereignty, or the modern nation state.