If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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.
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.