″...Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”
--Machiavelli
Exactly the philosophy I had in mind! Is this also present in rationality quotes somewhere? It certainly should be.
I don’t see it anywhere.