What you are is a question only you can answer.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

What you are is a question only you can answer.