When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no justice among men.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.