Why should they harm me? […] If you should forget what I now tell you, if you should be very curious to see me, and should inconsiderately look at me, a dreadful misfortune will happen to you. […] I should like to hear one. […] If I should kill him, my subjects would kill me, because they love him; so I should gain nothing by that. […] If I should draw a figure like hers, and not call it by her name, but should call it Truth, I should make a person of truth; I should personify truth.