Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.
To hate excellence is to hate the gods.