Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

What is deferred is not avoided.