You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: they use the snaffle and the curb all right, but where's the bloody horse?
So when the crisis is upon you, remember that god, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... That you may prove a victor at the great games.
In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.
