Beautiful advice from Imaam Abu Hatim rahimahullaah

"It is necessary that the intelligent person accustoms his soul to forgiving people and to leave repaying evil with evil. This is because there is nothing that would silence evil better than good treatment and beneficence and there is nothing that would stir up evil more than repaying evil with evil. Whoever desires copious reward, to receive devout love and good mention, let him experience the bitterness of opposing his base desires and taking to the way we have highlighted: joining relations when they have been severed; giving in the face of prevention; hilm in the face of ignorance; and forgiveness in the face of oppression. These are the greatest morals and manners of the religious."