Today's Stichomancy for Jim Carrey

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare:

SIMONIDES. He's but a country gentleman; Has done no more than other knights have done; Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass.

THAISA. To me he seems like diamond to glass.

PERICLES. Yon king's to me like to my father's picture, Which tells me in that glory once he was; Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne, And he the sun, for them to reverence;