Even the gods love jokes.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.