The More I Know, The More Sure

Anger Is Something You Should Only Vent In Front Of Intimates, And Friends And Relations. Never Be Angry In Front Of Strangers Because You Lose Face.

It's Always Important To Take Time To Study Men -- Important Men. Friends And Enemies.

Blackthorne, Beside The Gates, Was Still Turmoiled By His Boundless Joy At Her Reprieve And He Remembered How His Own Will Had Been Stretched That Night Of His Near-seppuku, When He Had Had To Get Up As A Man And Walk Home As A Man Unsupported, And Became Samurai. And He Watched Her, Despising The Need For This Courage, Yet Understanding It, Even Honoring It.

.., By Universal Custom, Your Enemy Is Never More Polite Than When He Is Planning Or Has Planned Your Destruction.

Love Is A Christian Word, Anjin-san. Love Is A Christian Thought, A Christian Ideal. We Have No Word For 'love' As I Understand You To Mean It. Duty, Loyalty, Honor, Respect, Desire, Those Words And Thoughts Are What We Have, All That We Need.