You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish. - Robert A. Heinlein

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Poddy’s greatest weakness—the really soft place in her head, she’s not too stupid otherwise—is her almost total inability to grasp that some people are as bad as they are. Evil. Poddy never has understood evil. Naughtiness is about as far as her imagination reaches.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.