The noble style immobilizes its subjects.
Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.