he would yet do full well to wait for that wisest of all counsellors, Time. - Plutarch

In truth, kings are afraid for their subjects, while tyrants are afraid of their subjects.

So is it with women also; if they subordinate themselves to their husbands, they are commended, but if they want to have control, they cut a sorrier figure than the subjects of their control. And control ought to be exercised by the man over the woman, not as the owner has control over a piece of property, but, as the soul colonists the body, by entering into her feelings and being knit to her through goodwill. As, therefore, it is possible to exercise care over the body without being a slave to its pleasures and desires, so it is possible to govern a wife, and at the same time to delight and gratify her.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.