Requiting, A human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 188
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Requiting those ignorant of what constituted the offense is cruelty. And our compassion here serves us well: a stoical apology dispenses with idiots sooner than a refutation they cannot understand in any way other than as an affront. I move on and away.
Never do yourself the harm of keeping as an enemy someone whose excellence in rivalry would have propelled you into a higher existence.
Never get revenge on anyone beneath you, nor above you. Never revenge.