“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

“Anger is a brief madness.”

“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”

“Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.”

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”

“Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.”

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”

“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”

“…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope...”

“Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.”