The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.