Anger is a passion which flares up against all types of people. It is born of love as well as hate, and is as liable to arise in the course of sport or jesting as in affairs of a serious kind.

The fact that counts is not the importance of the cause from which it springs but the kind of personality it lands in, in the same way as with fire what matters is not the fierceness of the flame but where it catches. Solid objects may resist the fiercest flame while, conversely, dry and in­flammable matter will nurse a mere spark into a conflagration.