He once said to his son...

I'm not willing to start a lecture but I wanted to tell you something you'll find quite out of context. Still, this is something you have to remember your entire life even if I know you will never understand.

You will have riches and some power that, albeit limited, will be great enough to make half of the world kneel before you.

You will have fame if you desire and you'll know the meaning of a restricted luxury commoners can only dream of...

With time, you'll forget the meaning of struggle and you will face the test of struggle and you’ll fail. Believe me you will. But you'll just dismiss this setback because you can...

Time will also make you forget people that love you as your space will become filled with people that love what you have. You will find these people charming to no end...

You'll see the world and you'll live a formidable life - in commoners' eyes - till the day you'll get tired of it all. You'll settle, you'll start looking for a successor and you'll try to make him into a man...

Looking back, you'll see the people you crushed. You'll find that petty display of your power amusing, you'll lough and by then, you'd have forgotten your own scars. They lay in ruin but you're scarred from the inside. That's what made you live the life you had... A quest to forget your own pain and, when you remember, that memory will never fade...