“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”

“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.”

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

“I understand too well the dreadful actI'm going to commit, but my judgementcan't check my anger, and that incitesthe greatest evils human beings do.”

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?”

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”