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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing read more
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature
runs to, the more ought law to read more
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature
runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with read more
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Vengeance has no foresight.
Vengeance has no foresight.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.