Aristocrats are like church bells: expensive, pretty, and only useful when regularly struck.

Why, a good evening to you, dear lady! Forgive the spartan accommodations; I was not expecting such honored company tonight, as you are manifestly aware.

To whom can you appeal for justice when the source of justice itself is the source of your oppression?

Revenge should only be sought if it serves both a strategic and personal goal. Strategic in that it will dissuade the target or others from committing more actions that demand retaliation. Personal in that the target must understand by whom and for what they are being punished, and be unable to prevent their comeuppance, because only in that circumstance will it bring satisfaction.

All systems are corrupt. All governments and all laws exist to benefit those in power.