Miserable Ordinances Of Princes

"..... miserable man, if he cannot often say and sing to himself those lines of Pindar,

"To love the slender cypress, and to leave the Cretan pastures lying near Ida. I have but little land, where I grow strong, and have nothing to do with sorrow or faction,"

or the ordinances of princes,

or public duties in political emergencies,

or state functions hard to get off."

- Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. First Century Greek Philosopher.