License destroys those who indulge

This licence [freedom from control] which all the world aspires to attain is a difficult thing to manage. It turns the heads of those who are enamored by it, and that it is in its nature like courtesans, who lure their victims to love but destroy those who indulge this passion.  Isocrates.  On The Peace.  Speech 8.  Section 103.



Image:  The defeat of Comus, 1843, by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, once a mural in a asmall garden pavilion on the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Comus  is the god of festivity, revels, nocturnal dalliances, and excess. He is a son and a cup-bearer of the god Dionysus. Comus represents anarchy and chaos.

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