You say "society must exact vengeance, and society must punish." Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. The Last Day of a Condemned Man
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Book VII
One repays a teacher badly if one remains always only a student. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary. Dead Souls
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