Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word.
Of ill-temper there are three kinds, irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. To folly belongs bad judgement of affairs, bad counsel, bad fellowship, bad use of one's resources, false opinionsįolly is accompanied by unskilfulness, ignorance, uncontrol, awkwardness, forgetfulness.
