How much better it is to heal than to avenge an injury!  Vengeance consumes much time, and it exposes the doer to many injuries while he smarts from one; our anger always lasts longer than the hurt.  How much better it is to take the opposite course and not to match fault with fault. 

Seneca, De Ira, Book III

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