Betrayal is terribly painful — God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Betrayal is a form of ecstasy — anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. It is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Distance is the soul of beauty.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

Distance is nothing to the lover — Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Distance is, in modernity, short in terms of length and yet ever remote to us. What is vastly far away in terms of length, can be near to us. Short distance is not already nearness. Great distance is not yet remoteness.

A Grudge is just one of those things where no matter how long you nurse the thing, it won't get better.

A Grudge is unwise — The more you stir a turd the worse it stinks

The Grudge is unwise — Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

A Grudge is best not carried — A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of a blockhead.

An Insult is difficult to ignore — An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

The Insult is best ignored — No holiness requires us to submit to insult.

An Insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

The Insult is a vulgar practice — The art of returning insult for insult belongs to street-porters.