I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
William ShakespeareBut 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
William ShakespeareFaith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare