Heavy 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 ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly…

— 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

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

— Thomas Fuller

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

— Walter Raleigh

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 are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

— Anonymous

Men are more easy to repay you with injury then with benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

— The 48 Laws Of Power

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

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

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

— Henry Home, Lord Kames