Romeo and Juliet
Sage Advice
For Romeo
He being a man of armes, and very valiant, would not always fight when he was provoked.
Romeo is too dependent upon his emotions, and should not react to situations so rashly.
For Mercutio
This advice is for Mercutio because he is often too eager to begin a fight, and begins fighting with Tybalt for something that doesn't have more value than his own life, which he payed due to his hot temper.
So little is the price of a mans life in our daies, and so great is the pride and wrath of vaine and foolish men; so that many a brave gentleman is cast away without cause and unnecessarily.
For Tybalt
Tybalt forgets all else when he becomes angry, making him a slave to his emotions.
To whom I answer; he is a slave which is inthralled into his owne anger.
For All of Them
This they take to be the honour and reputation of a man, and namely of a gentleman, that the least touch or word, which seemeth to carrie any disgrace, they be readie to stab, or to challenge into the field. And if through anger one chance to say, thou liest; or touch his cheeke with the backe of his hands; this is taken in such scorne, that there is no way of pacification or reconciliation, but by the sacrifice of death, either one or both must die, or at the least they hazard their lives in a wicked combate. So little is the price of a mans life in our daies, and so great is the pride and wrath of vaine and foolish men; so that many a brave gentleman is cast away without cause and unnecessarily.
All of the men are too eager to fight in the third act, and go about looking for trouble.
Irrelevant Advice in Today's World
....To whom I answer; he is a slave which is inthralled into his owne anger; but gentlemen are called, gens d'armes, men that beare armes and therefore let them read the historie of Julius Cesar in his Commentaries, and they shall finde, that he being a man of armes, and very valiant, would not always fight when he was provoked, no though his souldiers called him coward, but when it might be most safe for him and his army, amd most honourable in the issue:
Today, fighting is not as much of an issue as it was in the past. Because fights are less common, young men do not need to learn the skill of fighting when the time is right.