Destroyed Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. Wherefore the injury we do…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“And let it here be noted that men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in…

— Waxkeep Publishing

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

— Steve Perry

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

— Thomas Fuller

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws…

— Thucydides

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

— Benjamin Franklin

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames