“So, then, if thou wert sitting in judgment, on whom wouldst thou decree the infliction of punishment⁠—on him who had done the wrong, or on him who had suffered it?”

“Without doubt, I would compensate the sufferer at the cost of the doer of the wrong.”

“Then, the injurer would seem more wretched than the injured?”

“Yes; it follows. And so for this and other reasons resting on the same ground, inasmuch as baseness of its own nature makes men wretched, it is plain that a wrong involves the misery of the doer, not of the sufferer.”