"FRIAR MAURICE
Why am I so unhappy? Because I am what I must not be. Because half of me is not brother to the other half, and the conquest of one is the defeat of the other, and if the defeat the suffering - my suffering in either case. Half of me is noble and great, and half of me is little and vile. Both of them are me. When the part of me that is great triumphs, I suffer because the other half - which is also truly myself, which I have been unable to render not-myself - aches thereat. When
the base part of me triumphs, the noble half suffers and sorrows. Ignoble tears or noble tears - all of them are tears."

F.P. (circa 1907)