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Quote 17 You should be ruled and led By some discretion that discerns your state Better than you yourself. (II.ii.338-339) Meaning- When Lear makes his final, explosive demands to be allowed to retain his followers in his daughters’ homes, Regan responds with these lines, which fold the play’s concern with generational conflict into the theme of self-knowledge. The audience sees that Regan has a point. Lear is behaving badly, and to some extent it was his own idea to hand over his power to his daughters. However, the audience also has reason to suspect that Regan and Goneril will be unlikely to treat Lear better if he gives way to them. King Lear stages a particularly complex example of intergenerational conflict in which neither the aging father or his daughters can be trusted to wield power fairly.