If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.
When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you've got a dangerous man on your hands.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
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.
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.