- Xena: - I promise you, Toris, if you murder Cortese, you'll become what I was.
- Toris: I've seen you kill, Xena. What's the difference?
- Xena: Maybe it's just a difference in my head, but the pure evil of murder's it is premeditated - it is not in the heat of the battle, and it's not for self-defence - you have been planning this for years.