It is better to shun the cloud as it approaches than to be swept away in the rush of the flood

It is better to shun the cloud as it approaches than to be swept away in the rush of the flood. Demades. On the Twelve Years. Speech 1. Section 15.

Image: Neptune Calming The Tempest by Peter Paul Rubens, 1635, at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.