To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.