You are a king: I won't tell you to look at Croesus for an example. He watched his own funeral pyre get lit and then put out while he was still alive. He lived longer than his kingdom — he even outlived his own death. I won't point to Jugurtha either. The Roman people saw him as their captive in the same year they had feared him as their enemy. We have seen Ptolemy, King of Africa, and Mithridates, King of Armenia, both under guard by Caligula's soldiers. One was sent into exile. The other chose exile to make his downfall more dignified. With all these constant ups and downs, you give misfortune power over you unless you expect that whatever can happen will happen to you. Anyone who thinks about this ahead of time can destroy that power.