“ In truth, when someone is compelled by the power of love to do something that is contrary to his opinion, even though he can see at the same time what is better, but can’t summon up the resolve to follow it through, one might feel the more inclined to think him worthy of pardon because he has been seized by a passion that is violent and in some sense divine. ”
 Epictetus, Discourses (2nd century). copy citation