" Until a man has passed this test of office
And proved himself in the exercise of power,
He can't be truly known--for what he is, I mean,
In his heart and mind and capabilities.
Worst is the man who has all the good advise
And then because his nerve fails, fails to act
In accordance with it, as a leader should. "

― Seamus Heaney , The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone