It's The Familiar Love-hate Syndrome Of Seduction:

I Experienced In Myself A Certain Capacity For Judging Which I Have Doubtless Received From God, Like All The Other Things That I Possess; And As He Could Not Desire To Deceive Me, It Is Clear That He Has Not Given Me A Faculty That Will Lead Me To Err If I Use It Aright.

Archimedes, That He Might Transport The Entire Globe ... Demanded Only A Point That Was Firm And Immovable; So Also, I Shall Be Entitled To Entertain The Highest Expectations, If I Am Fortunate Enough To Discover Only One Thing That Is Certain And Indubitable.

Give Me Extension And Motion And I Will Construct The Universe.

Conquer Yourself Rather Than The World.

A State Is Better Governed Which Has Few Laws, And Those Laws Strictly Observed.