This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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.