Boldness climbs to the top better than inheritance, and worth wins power better than birth.

Moreover, it is no shame to overthrow old age, which of its own weight sinks and totters to its fall.

It shall be enough for my father to have borne the sceptre for so long; let the dotard's power fall to thee; if it elude thee, it will pass to another.

Whatsoever rests on old age is near its fall.

Think that his reign has been long enough, and be it thine, though late in the day, to be first.