Rumor is not always wrong
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
Conspicuous by his absence.