The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed.

Perdono al que roba al que mata, porque quizá lo hacen por necesidad, pero al traidor jamas

It is the treason that finds favour, and not the traitor who is guilty of it.

but you're not a traitor, you've merely been the tool of one. I don't punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman.

Farai un vers de dreit nien:
non er de mi ni d’autra gen,
non er d’amor ni de joven, ni de ren au,
qu’enans fo trobatz en durmen sus un chevau.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Treason is an easy word to speak. A traitor is one who fights and loses. Washington was a traitor to George III. Treason won, and Washington is immortal. Treason is a word that victors hurl at those who fail.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

although the treason pleases, yet is the traitor hated.

I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen. But this is no exception. Almost every person who steps out of the consensus is accused of treason by his contemporaries, or by her contemporaries. In fact, my protagonist in this novel (Judas) says that a traitor is very often simply a person who changes in the eyes of those who despise change, who mistrust change, who are antagonized to every change.

No one today would say that Chechens were traitors. The traitor was Joseph Stalin, who deported not only the Chechen people, but other different nations too.

No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured Me more, not Even the one who betrayed me to torture, Not even the one who caressed me and forgot.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.

Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.