Rule or keep quiet. Don't squander yourself, giving what you don't have. What good is the "Cesar" you might have been ? Enjoy being the little you are. The hovel you're given is a better shelter than the palace you're owed.

If each thing has its corresponding god,
Why shouldn't I have a god as well ?
Why shouldn't it be me ?
It's in me that this god moves, for I feel.
I clearly see the outside world---
Things and men with no soul.