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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
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.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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.