On Nobility and the Heart's Desire

When the world-seeking hero has risen high and grown mighty, he must not hand his army over to the enemy. Tears well up on his lashes out of envy, tears for which no doctor knows a cure. One who comes from the line of the great is destined to grow larger, and that is his true measure. When a servant must live without his heart's desire, he ends up telling tales that serve someone else's wishes. When the commander calls such a man his friend, reason will not sit well with his heart. If fate keeps him from what he longs for, then even creation itself will not read him with love. His heart will wish no good for anyone, and his desires will become the breakers of hearts. And there is another who has no reason at his root, and the wise do not count him among true people. When you have heard this whole story from beginning to end, you will see the very source of ill nature.