The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
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