Familiarity gives rise to contempt.
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."
A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.