Seneca the Younger Quotes

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

I'm not a guy who believes in revenge.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Punish the first insult: because an insult unpunished is the parent of many others.

A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.

If a man smites you on one cheek, smash him on the other.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

I come from a background where, if someone is rough and tough, you handle things physically. People betrayed me, and you just want to choke them. But you choose forgiveness.

If you lose a fight with someone, you don't get revenge from fighting someone else.