Be careful who you pretend to be. You might become it. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Real destiny takes everything — the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure — and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.