The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.
In plain words
The best way to get back at someone unkind is to refuse to become unkind.
Where these words come from
- 90% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Meditations, Book VI.6, George Long translation, 1862. (Wikiquote cites the same locus VI,6 under a popular paraphrase; wording here is Long's own verbatim primary text.)
- Meditations
- 170 · Roman Empire · private philosophical journal, not written for publication
