He had known the final shame; his soul had surrendered to force.

He could not redress that wrong; he could only repeat it and repay it.

He could make the souls of his soldiers surrender to his gibbet and his whipping-post; he could 'make the souls of the nations surrender to his soldiers.

He could only break men in as he had been broken; while he could break in, he could never break out.
He could not slay in anger, nor even sin with simplicity.

Thus he stands alone among the conquerors of their kind; his madness was not due to a mere misdirection of courage.