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All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.Preeminence is always detested, especially over those who are in high positions.Caution can gloss over common advantages.For example, good looks may be cloaked by careless attire.There are some that will grant you superiority in good luck or in good temper, but none in good sense, least of all a prince-for good sense is a royal prerogative and any claim of superiority in that is a crime against majesty.They are princes, and wish to be so in that most princely of qualities.They will allow someone to help them but not to surpass them.So make any advice given to them appear like a recollection of something they have only forgotten rather than as a guide to something they cannot find.The stars teach us this finesse with happy tact: though they are his children and brilliant like him, they never rival the brilliance of the sun.