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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.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

— Socrates

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

— Akiva ben Joseph

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

— John Stuart Mill

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

— Steve Perry

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

— Jane Porter

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

— Bo Bennett

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

— Alan Paton

✗Opposing Perspectives

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

— Jules Verne