One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? Crito: Very true. Socrates: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.