Wisdom lies behind that cold silver mask....

"None of us know our end, really,
or what hand will guide us there.
A king may move a man,
a father may claim a son,
but that man can also move himself,
and only then does that man
truly begin his own game.
Remember that howsoever you are played
or by whom,
your soul is in your keeping alone,
even though those who presume to play you
be kings
or men of power.
When you stand before God,
you cannot say,
"But I was told by others to do thus,"
or that virtue
was not convenient at the time.
This will not suffice.
Remember that"

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King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem