Reform is not pleasant but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work how much less a nation.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.