Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
How much must I overcome before I triumph?
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.