"Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your life!" 

"Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls."

.........

That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear robbers nor murdered. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves..."

Les Misérables, pg 34. Victor Hugo.