Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

The impulse behind revenge is not madness; it is a sense of justice with no procedure attached. Someone did something and it must be answered, and that instinct is so natural it needs a public system to stand in for it, because private justice has no way to stop. Your version of the wrong is the only one consulted, and the punishment is set by how much it hurt.

When you are owed something, separate the wanting of redress from the taking of it. Use whatever proper channel exists, and where none exists, consider that your life continuing well is the only answer that does not cost you more time.