"And from no one do I want beauty as I do from just you, you powerful one: let your kindness be your ultimate self-conquest.
I know you capable of all evil – therefore from you I want the good. Indeed, I often laughed at the weaklings who believe themselves good because their paws are lame!
You shall strive to emulate the virtue of a column; ever more beautiful and delicate it becomes, the higher it rises, but inwardly harder and more resistant."