For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
Authority is based first of all upon reason.
If you command your subjects to jump in the ocean, there will be a revolution. You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others.