By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.