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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.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

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.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

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