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Be fearful of exalted rank, o soul.<\/em>
\n And if you are unable to subdue<\/em>
\n your aspirations \u2014 doubtingly pursue them<\/em>
\n and with precautions. And the more you rise,<\/em>
\n the more examining, the warier be.<\/em><\/p>\n

And when you are arrived at the supreme<\/em>
\n height of your glory \u2014 a Caesar, as it were:<\/em>
\n when you are become a man so widely famed:<\/em>
\n then specially be wary \u2014 at such time<\/em>
\n as you come out into the thoroughfares,<\/em>
\n a noted ruler with great following:<\/em>
\n if peradventure, from the multitude,<\/em>
\n some friendly person, an Artemidorus,<\/em>
\n bringing a paper, should press near to you<\/em>
\n and rap out sharp \u201cRead this without delay;<\/em>
\n herein are weighty matters touching you\u201d,<\/em>
\n fail not to tarry; fail not to postpone<\/em>
\n all talk or business; fail not to turn off<\/em>
\n the different hangers-on who bow and scrape,<\/em>
\n (you will attend to them in time); let even<\/em>
\n the Senate wait; \u2014 leave all, and learn at once<\/em>
\n the grave things written by Artemidorus.<\/em><\/p>\n

CP Cavafy<\/p>\n

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