Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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