The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.