He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.
Interpretation
Accepting help or protection often comes with the expectation of loyalty or compliance.
This quote suggests that when one accepts help or protection from another, there is an implicit understanding that they will also follow certain rules or guidelines dictated by the protector. It highlights the complex dynamics of power and dependency in relationships, emphasizing that assistance is rarely free of strings attached.
In practice
In a discussion about the dynamics of political alliances, one might reference this quote to illustrate how support can come with obligations.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.
I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
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