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.
The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, 'What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?'
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.
In every adult there lurks a childβ an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
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