The sympathy
will make him become a happier person in life. because it means that he thinks about others rather than himself and doesn't make him to be a selfish person in love or other things.
He did what many illegal, because he want to keep a woman that he loves has a better life and he isn't think about the result later. Such as he kidnapped a child, so she kept as a child, but in fact she doesn't feel loved him. When she died, the boy is useless for him.
Love make him don't recognize the words, wrong or right and without sympathy for human beings. But if he reduce his own selfishness and more sympathetic to others.
He would be happy in life because he doesn't have to worry about nonsense.